Disable per application?

ililim / dual-key-remap

Remap any key to any other two keys on Windows 🔥. Remap CapsLock to both Ctrl and Escape! (It's like xcape for windows!)

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Disable per application? #17

Closed mg979 closed 5 years ago

mg979 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for this program. Is there a way (or can it be added) a way to disable it inside certain windows/programs? In VirtualBox for example.

ililim commented 5 years ago

That's an interesting idea! I'd like to keep the purpose of the application focused, so most likely I wouldn't add this unless a lot of users were to request it.

There is a way to achieve this using additional tools that supports per application remapping (i.e. AHK):

In DualKeyRemap map some rare key (i.e. F20) to Ctrl/Escape
In the external tool enable/disable the mapping of CapsLock to F20 per application/window

mg979 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the answer. I'd prefer to avoid workarounds such as those, I was unhappy with the AHK solution because it was hacky and unpredictable, so that would be more of the same. I'll be content with what's possible now. Feel free to close this if it's not in the plans for now.