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Disabling a shortcut still allows fallthrough: shortcut + other key will execute the shortcut (with no option to disable all sub-shortcuts)

Open robmonte opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.64.0

Installation method

GitHub

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Keyboard Manager

Steps to reproduce

  1. Set a shortcut to disable Alt+Tab on a specific process, e.g. mspaint
  2. Open Paint
  3. Press Alt+Tab
  4. Press Alt+Tab+
  5. The Alt+Tab menu still opens

✔️ Expected Behavior

Because Keyboard Manager does not let you change a shortcut with more than 2 buttons, there is no way to stop fallthrough shortcuts from executing. There's 2 ways I can think to solve this:

  • Allow n-keys to be set in the shortcuts of Keyboard Manager.
  • Include a checkbox to stop ALL derivatives of the shortcut from executing (e.g. Alt+Tab+ all get blocked, along with Alt+Tab itself)

❌ Actual Behavior

Disabling a shortcut only blocks the specific shortcut, and the presence of any other key press at the same time lets the shortcut fallthrough and still get executed by Windows.

Other Software

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robmonte avatar Nov 07 '22 19:11 robmonte