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FR: Notification for added control via hotkeys

Open vertigo220 opened this issue 3 weeks ago • 0 comments

I'm frequently switching between profiles/configs, and recently discovered the hotkeys ability which could help with this. While I could assign a separate hotkey for each config, it would be pretty barebones and lack enhanced control and info regarding what's happening. I've spent a good bit of time trying to put something together with BurntToast for using a notification to improve this but can't get it working, and could probably do it with AutoHotKey or perhaps PowerShell dialog boxes, but no matter what it's going to be a pain and still not likely be fully capable of what I'd like.

What I'm thinking is that if a notification could be added that, when triggered by hotkey, would show in the bottom corner of the screen and display the currently active config as well as buttons for other configs to activate them, which would be user-customizable for how many buttons/configs would be available and the text on the buttons. So instead of needing several different hotkeys which would provide no indication that the config has been changed save for (maybe) hearing the fans get louder or quieter, there could be just one that shows the notification, which shows the current config and allows for quickly selecting a new one (ideally both by clicking a button and by pressing a number key (with or without a modifier, e.g. 1 or Alt+1) which would activate the config for that number button, then giving visual confirmation in the notification that the newly selected config has been activated.

In addition to this, it would be helpful if the tray icon could be dynamic to show text within it, so each config could have a unique, user-customizable field where the text to be shown (limited to 3 characters) would be entered, and that text would then be shown on the icon depending on which config is active, thereby allowing to see which config is active at a glance.

vertigo220 avatar Dec 08 '25 06:12 vertigo220