Automation to disable specific powertoys when a certain application is open

[lubelski]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

This is my best guess at how one might solve my problem, but wildly open to any options.

When a specific application is open I'd like to disable certain powertoys to avoid conflicts with that application.

Scenario when this would be used?

When I attempt to play this game that my buddy wants to get me into, Helldivers 2, I think has some god-awful anti-cheat thing running which prevents capturing keystrokes that I have set via keyboard manager, but also doesn't recognize the original keystroke either.

Bonus problem is that once keyboard manager is disabled, a keystroke in the game keeps opening Powertoys Run, so I figure I could use the same mechanic to disable that.

Supporting information

this isn't really supporting information, but I haven't had to open Powertoys in like a year. i.e. a testament to how much of it Just Works™. there's so many things now. great work.

[Aaron-Junker]

Some modules allow to be disabled when an app is in fullscreen mode (like Run), some allow you to exclude certain apps. But not all the modules allow this yet.

[lubelski]

ok, [good] I didn't know this option existed, but [bad] it appears it was already checked.

I'm probably running this fussy game in the borderless kind of fullscreen. I'll play around and see if I can get things behaving better.

[Jay-o-Way]

haven't had to open Powertoys in like a year.

What version are you using?

[william-lubelski-toast]

haha. fair question. to be more precise:

I run the auto updater whenever I see it. but I hadn't opened (or at least looked at closely) the actual big UI panel for all the toys in a year.