[Find My Mouse] Allow to change the shortcut

[maxkoshevoi]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

This feature is great, but I find myself pressing Ctrl two times far too often. Could you change it to tipple press, or allow for user-defined shortcut?

Scenario when this would be used?

For me this feature results in far too many false positives, so different shortcut would be great

Supporting information

No response

[hulliex]

I fully agree with the above! At first I thought it was some kind of new windows functionality, but I just found out it was new functionality of Powertoys. It might be a nice function, but now it's an annoying function, the searchlight pops up all the time. So please change the shortcut. (For now I disabled the function, also because of too many false positives)

[stefansjfw]

@jaimecbernardo FYI

[franky920920]

Sounds like we need to work on the OOBE "updates window".

That's SCOOBE in #14536

[franky920920]

Also see #14638

[Phosphorshy]

Yes, full customizability at best and being able to set it to right ctrl at the minimum

[htcfreek]

The double key press duration should be configurable too.

[maxkoshevoi]

That's introduced in .51, isn't it?

Doesn't seem to be:

[Jay-o-Way]

True, was mistaken with animation duration. Delay is hardcoded at 100 ms.

[RaoulJacobs]

Hi JetBrains Datagrip has ctrl+ctrl hardcoded for multiline carets . So would be nice if we could define the shortcut ourselves.

[quyenvsp]

Yes, full customizability at best and being able to set it to right ctrl at the minimum

Thank for suggest, in time wait PowerToys team make change I have modified it by myself and it working perfect now! You can check my guide: PowerToys change the shortcut Find my mouse to Right Ctrl

Modified file 100% safe, I just changed 1 bit which define RightCtrl instead of Left. You can check by cmd:

cd /d C:\Program Files\PowerToys\modules\MouseUtils
fc /b FindMyMouse.dll FindMyMouse.dll.origin

It will show changed 1 bit 74 -> 75

[minig0d]

Agree with all the above... my 2cents is CTRL CTRL is such a valuable shortcut (being at the corner of the keyboard it's so easy to locate from hands off), that I would MUCH rather reserve it for a function that I would use more often.

Was poking around to see if there was already an idea open, but I'd actually prefer having two shortcuts. 1 for current functionality and the other that was an always on/always off toggle.

[SailingNut]

Would be nice to be able use a mouse button for this. Folks with gaming mice have lots of "extra" buttons when not gaming and it would be super handy to not even have to go to the keyboard.

[Zettrex]

Agreed

[roberestarkk]

I honestly wouldn't even be averse to a sticky-keys-like 5-tap. I've noticed currently it's 1.5 tap (as it seems to be on keydown rather than keyup like stickykeys is), which I absolutely agree is too easily done accidentally.

That said, I have disabled StickyKeys on Shift, because while it's rare it does still happen accidentally. So I still would put my vote on 'more customisation' over 'different keybinding' (though this not being a noise-making focus-stealing popup does make it less inherently hate-worthy).

Not sure how feasible it'd be, but from my perspective the 'ultimate' eating the cake and still having it solution would be something like: Custom Shortcut (Fully custom key or key combo for activating it): Require Repetitions (Does the shortcut need to be repeated to activate the feature?): No. of Repetitions (How many times must the shortcut be pressed before the feature activates?):

[FireRainV]

Being able to choose any shortcut combination would be the best

[jaimecbernardo]

This has been worked on for the 0.74.0 release. Please update PowerToys to the latest version. 😉 https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases