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ITachiLab / hotkey-detective

A small program for investigating stolen hotkeys under Windows 8+
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Nothing response after press some hostkey #1

Closed XuPengfei-1020 closed 3 years ago

XuPengfei-1020 commented 3 years ago

OS: win10, version: 19041.572 presse win+a, win+s, alter+tab, work well. press ctrl+n, ctrl+shift+n, nothing response on shell.

ITachiLab commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for the report!

Do you suspect that CTRL+N or CTRL+SHIFT+N are owned by some process? HotKey Detective recognises only the hotkeys that are registered with the system. These combinations looks like they belong to a browser and can be received only when the browser is a top most window. In this case, the browser could have a different method of catching the key combinations and it might not use the system's API.

If I understood you wrong, please give more details on how did you check that and what is the expected result.

XuPengfei-1020 commented 3 years ago

you right. ctrl + x are not owned by system. it`s feature.

ITachiLab commented 3 years ago

Actually, there's a possibility to create a global, system hotkey for CTRL + X combination, but almost no one does it. The reason is simple: many programs leverage CTRL + X for their internal purposes, like mentioned CTRL + N in a browser, and the global hotkey will mostly override the internal behavior. Developers know this and avoid using CTRL + (letter) combinations for their global bindings.

ALT + (letter) is a different story though. It's a common practice to use this kind of combination as a global hotkey because it has no practical usage in case of languages without diacritics (like English). It happened to me a few times that I couldn't write "ć", because I installed something that owned ALT + C combination. Instead of my fancy letter, I've got a control panel opened for some driver. It's really frustrating.