newlooper / VirtualSpace

A Virtual Desktop Enhancement GUI Program For Win10 & Win11
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Please allow alternate key combination for "Raise MainView" to be configurable. #78

Open mdear opened 1 year ago

mdear commented 1 year ago

Please allow user to configure the alternate for the "Rise MainView" keyboard control subcategory under the General category.

Due to features not yet availlable in VS, I still need to alternate between TaskView and VS main view (most notably, TaskView shows the window titles while VS does not).

At present, the alternate key combination to raise the mainview is hardcoded to when in prior releases it was not. Please make this setting configurable.

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mdear-lsn commented 1 year ago

One external keyboard (Kinesis Advantagw2 LF) only has a Right Windows key, and I have been using this to wake up the TaskView main window when pressed with the Tab key. My laptop native keyboard only has a Left Windows key and this with Tab instead wakes up the VirtualSpace main window, which is not what I want (I remapped another key for the VS main window)

pakx commented 7 months ago

+1

Have you found a fix yet?

Using a different key combination to bring up Windows native Taskview, seems to require autohotkey, powertoys, or similar to be running all the time. (Haven't seen a registry-only fix)

Using a shell shortcut to show Taskview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlD4c3SfPTQ) isn't any better than using the Taskview glyph by the search box.

I'm tempted to remove the hardcoded Alternate completely and rebuild VirtualSpace for myself, until your suggestion, which is the real fix, is implemented :-/

pakx commented 5 months ago

Here's my workaround