Stucked Caplocks with no way to disable while dual-key-map is running

[haoadoreorange]

Hello,

I use PowerToys to map some shortcuts to Ctrl+keys and then use this to have my Capslock works as Ctrl. Once in a while I find my Capslock activated (not sure why, probably some interfering with PowerToys??) with no way to disable it, because Capslock now is just a Ctrl.

I have to open Task Manager, force quit dual-key-remap, disable Capslock and only then rerun it, the whole process is quite cumbersome.

I tried AHK to map Shift to disable Capslock without success.

Shift::SetCapsLockState, Off

If key-dual-map is running then this script wouldn't work, Shift just behaves a little bit like Esc (which is weird), seems like key-dual-map runs at a lower level and somehow mess with AHK SetCapsLockState.

Do you know any workaround at the moment ?

EDIT: typo

[ililim]

This is an interesting problem, I can investigate this.

In the meantime as a workaround, I recommend remapping capslock to escape via registry (e.g. with a tool like SharpKeys) and then use dual-key-remap to remap esc = esc when alone, ctrl when with other.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 6:41 PM haoadoreorange @.***> wrote:

Hello,

I use PowerToys to map some shortcuts to Ctrl+keys and then use this to have my Capslock works as Ctrl. Once in a while I find my Capslock activated (not sure why, probably some interfering with PowerToys??) with no way to disable it, because Capslock now is just a Ctrl.

I have to open Task Manager, force quit dual-key-remap, disable Capslock and only then rerun it, the whole process is quite cumbersome.

I tried AHK to map Shift to disable Capslock without success.

Shift::SetCapsLockState, Off

If key-dual-map is running then this script wouldn't work, Shift just behaves a little bit like Esc (which is weird), seems like key-dual-map works at a lower level and somehow mess with AHK SetCapsLockState

Do you know any workaround at the moment ?

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[haoadoreorange]

Thanks ! the workaround does work wonderfully 💯 When I have some time I'll try to look into this bug too, so keep me in touch if you find anything :D

[dumblob]

One quick workaround is to run e.g. msconfig as non-admin and once the dialogue window asking for admin credentials pops up, just press CapsLock key.

The reason this works is that dual-key-remap does not have permissions for this dialogue hence CapsLock works as the usual CapsLock.

On the other hand this is at the same time annoying as there are quite a few other contexts which Windows use with higher privileges (e.g. presentation mode of MS PowerPoint or the "share full screen in MS Teams" functionality) where I would wish dual-key-remap worked reliably but it does not 😢

@ililim do you think this is solvable somehow? Or would we need to run a second instance of dual-key-remap this time with admin privileges in the background somehow?