Disable ActivationHotKey

[marconetto]

I understand the ActivationHotKey can help if we forget some shortcut.

I'm trying to configure a hyperkey (capslock mapped to win+shift+alt+control via ahk) and it seems it is also triggering the activationhotkey of fancywm. Is there any way disable the ActivationHotKey?

[riotrah]

I have this problem sometimes - I'm not sure why it's not consistent.

How are you setting up your hyper key? AHK?

[marconetto]

Yes using AHK as described in the highest score answer in this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40435980/how-to-emulate-hyper-key-in-windows-10-using-autohotkey

My experience is that using hyper this way, I think all times fancywm makes the border of the current window be colored when pressed and some times the activationhotkey menu shows up. That is why I would very much like to disable the activationhotkey.

What I ended up doing, which is 'ok' for now (I'm sure it will conflict with something in near future), is to have my hyper only with alt+control+win. This way I don't have conflict with fancywm. I'm new to windows / ahk / fancywm (always used linux+mac) .

[riotrah]

@marconetto

Yeah I've been using a Mac for work for about a year now and that's where I got into hyper key stuff via karabiner. In case it's similar to yours, my desired config is basically:

1. Tap capslock for escape
2. Hold capslock for hyper = win+shift+ctrl+alt
3. Except for special keys: hjkl, ui, pn, which emit arrows, pgUp/Down, home/end respectively - such that <modifier>+capslock+<special key> also "passes through" any extra modifiers as well, as if I'd pressed <modifier>+<special key mapping>

Porting that to Windows has been more tricky than I'd expected. Using ahk for my particular use case didn't end up working exactly as I'd wanted, so I moved to Kanata for just the key remapping + ahk for doing anything else with those keys.

I've found that when I was first setting up both ahk and Kanata that I'd accidentally activate FWM any time I'd press capslock. However - and I unfortunately can't remember exactly how - I was able to get past that problem. Perhaps I had to ensure that either ahk or Kanata were started as admin? Try that if you haven't already.

I'm gonna edit this comment with a link to my old ahk config and my post on Kanata's repo where I asked and received help for my personal approach to caps lock hyper key, lemme know if they help.

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Strangely, even though I've fixed the accidental fwm activation, FancyWM is the only application that can somehow "see through" the remapping, which means that if capslock+h = left arrow, and I do:

1. win+shift -> activate fwm
2. capslock+h -> left

FancyWM does not receive a left but in fact does receive a capslock+h! Which is remarkable because Windows itself and the rest of the UI of the system or any app thinks I pressed left as intended. Very strange!

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