The new Microsoftslop copilot key always sends the following key-sequence when pressed:
copilot key down: left-shift-down left-meta-down f23-down f23-up left-meta-up left-shift-up
copilot key up: <null>
This means there’s no real key-up event when you release the key --> it can’t be used (properly) as a modifier like ctrl or alt.
The workaround is to send a pretend key-up event after a time delay, but then you mustn’t be too slow / fast when pressing a shortcut.
- Linux workaround: https://github.com/m-bartlett/remap-copilot?tab=readme-ov-file
- Windows workaround https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys/issues/560
- https://xcancel.com/dcolascione/status/2019936377408811319
tldr: AI took a perfectly working modifier key from you.
— edit —
Some keyboards apparently do the “right” thing and don’t send the whole sequence at once, you can remap those properly with keyd, see: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/issues/1025#issuecomment-2971556563 / https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/issues/825
copilot key down: left-shift-down left-meta-down f23-down
copilot key up: f23-up left-meta-up left-shift-up
this will still break left-shift + remapped copilot and left-meta + remapped copilot, but RCtrl remaps should work as expected
why even buy that slop of hardware beforehand? if you dont want that feature, you might be happier with another brands laptop
Find me a good recent laptop without a cockpilot key
In Windows:
PowerToys -> Keyboard Manager -> New Shortcut -> press the Copilot key -> select “Ctrl (right)” from the drop-down. Job done.
Not sure why is it so hard on Linux that it generates such headlines.
this isn’t properly remapped and depending on implementation of the key-up events by the keyboard vendor, requires an ugly time delay hack.
qed. https://github.com/Rast1234/copilot_key_on_my_keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file#the-bad
Tell me you haven’t tried it without telling me…
It works as a Ctrl key. It just works when remapped via PowerToys. I use it at work practically non-stop for Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+Backspace.
Its not immune from removal via knife
*Sry for the washed out colors. This was originally an HDR video.
Leave it in HDR next time. As someone who owns an HDR monitor and a phone with an HDR display, there is simply not enough content out there outside of movies and games.
I converted the original video to a GIF and that is sadly the outcome.
Yeah and I’m asking you to please don’t lol
My winter heating bill halved when I switched to HDR mode on my monitor.
An embarrassing new low, even with the bars they’ve already set. And fitting, for this being the (egregiously multiply-) branded button to launch the shit show. Christ, this has been a fucking carnival lmao.
Microslop has now regressed to implementing “features” very closely resembling - in sophistication and effect - my own bumbling, desperate, ignorant attempts at similar (“making a button behave like a macro”), using AutoHotKey, somewhere between 15-20 years ago.
And do I understand that they both shipped that, on hardware, AND it’s broken so badly it can’t be easily remedied?
I don’t know what to say. It’s like all the geniuses of comedy who died too young are doing this, all of it.
(No shade whatsoever to AHK, it was, probably still is, awesome at its job!)
Edit: suddenly realized it’s just on purpose, probably. Anyway, rant remains lol
Doesn’t seem to be present on my keyboard. 😁
What’s the keyboard? Always wanted to try an arisu/Alice/derivations.
I’m… Reborn and in love with mech keyboards. 😃
Neat, they have a near full keys version now. I’ve bookmarked their smaller Alice board from before, but I don’t really follow mech keebs much. This is amazing news. Thanks.
Yeah, you don’t sacrifice any convenience here, in my opinion:
this is the truly Alienware keyboard
My eyes, my eyes!
Oh, wow. There it is. The keyboard of my dreams.
Using one of these while on acid does not seem advisable, though.
Noted. Do not buy used laptops with microslop cancer button.
A shame because they’re all still good hardware. Just don’t want to deal with the cursed button.
It’s just a button that worse case scenario does nothing for you.
It takes up space you can’t use.
Specially in laptops, that’s very bad.
Less than one percent of the keyboard being less-then-useful, that you can even make useful with some effort, is hardly a dealbreaker, it doesn’t even rises in severity to “bad” let alone “very bad”
Dunno about you, but I use every key on larger layouts, so this is definitely a hard no for me.
As long as there are other options, this is a straight up downgrade for no benefit. So absolutely no.
Why would you buy this garbage?
It is shocking difficult to buy a new laptop without one. Yes, I know about Framework, System 76, etc, but go to your local big box store and every laptop is covered in either Microsoft logos or Apple logos.
MacBooks are frikkin amazing though. There is nothing in the PC world that even comes close.
Seems like you’re comparing €1500 MacBooks to €300 laptops.
It’s always this. “This brand new £1500 laptop I don’t share with anyone, coddle like a newborn and barely use for anything other than running Office is so much better than the £350 ten year old laptop I was sharing with my entire family and was used for playing video games, downloading warez and pirated media, and running Office.”
