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riverlover
Microsoft PowerToys version
0.81.0
Installation method
WinGet
Running as admin
None
Area(s) with issue?
Keyboard Manager
Steps to reproduce
Map "ALT" to "CTRL"
✔️ Expected Behavior
I expected some way to be able to get application switching (say, switching between Firefox and VSCode) to work after mapping.
❌ Actual Behavior
Instead, since this normally is "ALT+TAB" , the ALT gets picked up and converted to a CTRL, meaning there is no way to get application switching with "ALT+TAB" as normal once the global "ALT" -> "CTRL" mapping has been made.
The only way for me to solve this was to individually map every single other combination of "ALT + __" with the exception of TAB. So the mapping looks like:
but this is extremely annoying. There should be a better way to do this!
Other Software
Edition Windows 11 Home Version 23H2 Installed on 10/12/2023 OS build 22631.3593