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zocker-160 / keyboard-center

Application for mapping macro keys on Logitech keyboards
GNU General Public License v3.0
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ability to send modifiers by themselves #30

Closed recallmenot closed 2 years ago

recallmenot commented 2 years ago

Hi again, sorry to be annoying. :D I'm using virt-manager and want to quickly alt tab to another program on the host. To release the focus from the guest I'd need to send L_CTRL+L_ALT without anything else (followed by ALT+TAB of course but that works perfectly now). Currently keyboard-center when saving throws the error "No key assigned!". Maybe it would it be possible if you made that just an ignorable warning?

zocker-160 commented 2 years ago

ah yeah that makes sense, adding an ignore button to the warning might be a solution, though not one I would like. I will look into that as well ^^

EDIT: feel free to open as many issue as you like, that is what they are for :)

zocker-160 commented 2 years ago

this will require a hacky solution, because sadly QKeySequenceEdit does not support inputting modifiers alone with no additional key.

recallmenot commented 2 years ago

hi, I found a hacky workaround again If you look at the input-event-codes, #0 is bound to "reserved". as far as I can tell, sending that works fine, though I had to put it manually into the settings.yml maybe tell QKeySequenceEdit to send that my string line is - [Ctrl, Alt, nullkey] my value lines for L-alt and L-Ctrl are

      - - [1, 29]
        - [1, 56]
        - [1, 0]
zocker-160 commented 2 years ago

hmm yeah it could work, but it would be limited to this very specific use case.

I think it would be better to have some type of "RAW" input mode which bypasses the QKeySequenceEdit, this would also give the user the ability to differentiate between L_CTRL and R_CTRL which currently is not possible.

zocker-160 commented 2 years ago

@recallmenot I pushed 0.1.30 which adds raw input and a nullkey, could you please give me some feedback?

I sadly could not test this in depth since I do not have any use case for such shortcuts.

recallmenot commented 2 years ago

Hi Zocker, sorry for the wait. I tested it, it works, awesome! And it's easy to use! Only sometimes when sending CTRL+ALT, the VM receives ALT and the guest receives CTRL + ALT. That seems to be a bug in the Virt-man window, probably nothing you can do anything about. The program sends

- - [1, 29]
  - [1, 56]
  - [1, 0]

Thank you for making this great program!

zocker-160 commented 2 years ago

nice glad to hear, thank you for the feedback @recallmenot