enhancement: allow rebinding of alt menu hotkey globally

[Hifilo]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

powertoys has some neat features so Thanks for making it.

I use alt as a modifier for hotkeys/shortcuts, but the way it currently works requires me to hold alt to use it as a modifier. If I press it, it defaults to menu select. depending on how fast I hit the keys it will glitch out into the menu.

I have underline setting off in windows accessibility settings, and I thought that would resolve it, but it didn't.

I have tried a few methods of bypassing this, through rebinds & various macros, but all of these require changing the alt key to something else, or reducing the functionality of the alt key. (If I'm missing a perfect solution please enlighten me)

If possible could you provide a way to change this(and maybe other, similar)commands?

It is useful that I can grab the menu with a key, I just wish I could change the binding to a key I use less frequently.

I thought I could do it with powertoys but I guess not.

cheers

Scenario when this would be used?

its a modifier for shortcuts/macros, so pretty often.

Supporting information

many threads regarding this dating back to 2016

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/i-want-to-disable-the-menu-activation-via-the-alt/6bc632fa-61ee-4b95-b1d8-b0718266c7a6

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11159

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-to-turn-off-altkeytip/254ef99e-b1ed-4363-a1dc-2cec224dc682

from 2016 : https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-disable-the-left-alt-key-as-the-menu-bar/8d10daec-98b1-425f-9f08-1ae0d77db231

Thanks

[TheJoeFin]

The keyboard manager currently does not support tapping modifiers, they are required to be held to work. Please review this issue #5679. Is your request is being addressed there? /needinfo

[Hifilo]

The keyboard manager currently does not support tapping modifiers, they are required to be held to work. Please review this issue #5679. Is your request is being addressed there? /needinfo

Okay, To be clear, the reason I want to change the key is because i hit the modifiers a little too quickly and the key press doesn't get registered as a "hold" before the next input is triggered.

If the feature they have requested would allow me to override the default tap/hold behavior of the modifiers in windows then yes I think this could be rolled into that issue/feature request.