sharpkeys

Just remap it! If you're on Windows, SharpKeys will do that for you. https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

You can remap the keys so that "Special: Power" key button does nothing.. Or even to the original function (on my keyboard it would mean Volume Down would be F12 instead). One Windows software to do that: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys / https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xpffcg7m673d4f?hl=en-US On Linux, heck it's Linux, for sure it's doable.

I don’t know Kanata, but you need to find out which key codes are sent for the multimedia functions in order to remap them. This file [0] (linked from [1]) contains the key names Kanata knows, and it has entries like “VolumeUp”. You could try to remap those to the respective function key. There are some keyboards, however, which send multimedia commands via USB “out of band” from normal key codes, and which therefore cannot be remapped that way. [0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/parser/src/keys/mo... [1] https://jtroo.github.io/config.html#key-names In case you are on Windows, I would recommend SharpKeys [2] for basic remappings. [2] https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

Sharpkeys can swap keys, the readme says as much: > Things that SharpKeys will do: > ... > Allow you to swap two keys with each other - e.g. you can swap Left Windows with Left Control and vice versa I do have a vague recollection of Sharpkeys previously saying that it couldn’t, but that I tried and it worked. Long time since I last used Windows though. https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys#things-that-sharpkey...

> Total commander isn’t FOSS. I'm aware of that. There are lots of FOSS equivalents, though. Including, I believe, on Windows. Wikipedia lists 23 of which I think -- haven't checked -- the majority are FOSS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man... > Ironically windows 11 can’t do vertical taskbars. True. Easily fixed with Explorer Patcher, though. Which, ironically, is FOSS. > And where in windows can you change the system shortcuts? I don't use it much any more and stopped early this century, so my knowledge here may be out of date. When I do, I use SharpKeys to put a GUI on editing the relevant registry keys for keyboard remapping. https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys In the NT 3.x era, it was the properties of every EXE's PIF file. So I set Crtl+Alt+(initial) to open my most used apps. Ctrl+Alt+D for DOS, E

Remapping Capslock to Control: Windows: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys Ubuntu Linux (don't know about other Linuxes): /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc key <CAPS> { [ Caps_Lock ] }; -> key <CAPS> { [ Control_L ] }; These solutions avoid needing to keep a keybinding application open. The Linux solution unfortunately resets after every version upgrade.

> I'm familiar with this, but I didn't find a way of remapping the alt/win keys with it. The closest I've found was using alt-gr for level 3. But I don't want that, I want the key next to it to be alt-gr. I also want to have it on the left side, too. https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys/releases BIG WARNING if you do this! I've done it in the past and using other computers will just break your brain. Think working with someone else or helping relatives, etc. > Because they're basically undiscoverable and require hours of googling. Oh, so just like Linux stuff? :-p The double standards are real :-D > The first approach I'd found, using the remap function of PowerToys kinda worked. But it randomly stopped working and would behave as if I had the super key pressed all the time. Cue windows randomly moving around, etc. I've used SharpKeys

For a simpler solution I can recommend https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys. Of course AHK is great tool for all kinds of more advanced customizations.

For a more general solution, I prefer https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys on Windows.

That Softonic site is probably totally unrelated to the original developer. This is the legit site: https://www.randyrants.com/software/ It's also on GitHub: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

Better yet, use any keyboard you like, and remap (left) Windows to a different key code, ideally corresponding to some key that's not present on your current keyboard layout and that, unlike the Windows key, is fully remappable by AutoHotkey, in-game options, etc., using something like https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

Perhaps I'm missing something but isn't there already pretty much the same functionality available when you press just [Win] (instead of [Win]-[R]) and start typing? > Keys will be remapped as long as the Keyboard Manager and PowerToys are running in the background, and you can swap individual keys and even Windows shortcuts. Keys can already be remapped via a Registry entry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout, which does not require anything running in the background, although this works for individual keys only. There is even a great GUI utility to simplify creating the correct Registry entries: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

See also: SharpKeys (https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys)

It's a registry edit, but SharpKeys is a small GUI for editing that part of the registry: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys