Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really, it sends a combination of 3 really fast button combination on press and doesn’t report to the os when your finger releases the key. You need to run a daemon that detects that specific combination and emulates a finger release after a specified time

  Assholes. Couldn’t they just remap one of the useless “internet” keys from the 00s like KEY_HOMEPAGE or XF86Mail??

  Or create a brand new scancode since they could change the kernel without any problem, especially because the manufacturers would need to change the keyboard firmware anyway AND because copilot requires special hardware, it doesn’t need retro compatibility with older windows versions that don’t have the scancode in kernel or in the keyboard driver

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  • FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have one on my Lenovo IdeaPad I bought a few months ago and am running Mint on. I remapped it to bring up the menu almost immediately. No issues. It acts like a Super key. Maybe this is a model specific thing?

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    • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As I read it, you can’t use it as modifier as it does not ever release. So bringing up a menu directly works, but copilot+x is troublesome to map

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