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[KBM] Remap Key to Mouse Click
Be nice if keyboard keys could be re-assigned to mouse keys. E.g. I like to use F1 to send a mouse left mouse click.
If we make this, we should look that is also works in the opposite direction.
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/11578#issuecomment-853149117 by @Jay-o-Way
Please, yes! That would be very useful in combination with eye tracking software.
So in PowerToys present state (or version 0.45.0) one cannot use a modifier key combined with left click? I agree this would be great to have. Would this be difficult to develop? I have someone that might be willing to pay someone to do this.
... Would this be difficult to develop? I have someone that might be willing to pay someone to do this.
CC @crutkas might be interested.
I still don't understand what the use case is. You still need a mouse to move the cursor, so why not click it? Or use Windows mouse keys?
My use case was to have a modifier key to allow the mouse buttons to do more than simply left/right click.
There are input devices that don't have buttons, and I was actually just now looking for utilities that would let me do clicks using the keyboard.
In theory it should have worked.. left click is supposedly VK 01, but trying that key remap does nothing at the current time.
In theory it should have worked.. left click is supposedly VK 01, but trying that key remap does nothing at the current time.
Yeah, googled and found this list http://www.kbdedit.com/manual/low_level_vk_list.html which has the following note:
**) "mouse button" quasi VK codes are generated by Windows when user clicks left/middle/right/X1/X2 mouse buttons. KbdEdit allows these codes to be assigned to physical keys, but such mappings make no sense: pressing a key with VK_LBUTTON assigned to it will NOT make Windows act as if physical mouse button was pressed.
The page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes does not have any similar notes.
Indeed, this would be extremely useful in combination with eye tracking - especially in AR etc. Any progress on this please?
Yes, please to this, and the reverse (mapping mouse to keyboard). I'd love to be able to map Ctrl+MouseWheelUp/Down to VolumeUp/Down. etc.
Is this on your roadmap now? The laptop people without a mouse could really benefit from not breaking their touchpads.
I've been trying to enable this capability for a while, and got pretty close with a simple "rebind.ahk" script + program, but it just wasn't robust enough. The main goal is to abolish the mouse and emulate a "vi" style custom workflow for any application of your choosing. We are all spending way too much time in front of computers these days, and the strain on wrist is a serious health risk -- I have 5 different ergonomic mice that I constantly switch between -- then again, I run a global CAD navigation team in the semiconductor industry. Long story short, NEED THIS , WANT THIS, PLEASE ENABLE ASAP (with Linux support as well). Please.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/255509/send-mouse-wheel-click-properly-sendinput-mouseeve.html This is how to send it, for anyone looking to implement.
please make this a thing. I use a program where i have to use the middle mouse button and there isn't one on a laptop, if i can rebind a key to that button i dont need to bring a mouse with me.
FYI this functionality is implemented in my project. It's a more advanced version of Keyboard Manager. No fancy GUI though; it uses text based configuration. It's also cross-platform (Windows+Linux, not MacOS) :)
Maybe late than ever, i tryd powertoys to help me turn ctrl-c into a numpad5 click, numpad5 is easy to turn into a mouseclick with windows itself. But apperently powertoys turns ctr-c into a normal 5! instead of a real numpad5 press which is a mouse click if you enable mousekeys on in windows.
I'm looking to remap ALT (right) and/or CTRL (right) to mouse click left, tried remapping to VK1 but this doesn't work.
My use case: I'm using a laptop with the trackpad and the left mouse button on the trackpad has always been difficult to press, and has gotten worse over time, it's a poorly made/designed trackpad (the buttons at least). Remapping to said keys would allow me to use the trackpad with index finger or thumb, and left click with middle finger, ring finger, or pinky finger.
Like the user above I would use mouse keys but the numpad 5 key is too far away to use the trackpad and tap the numpad 5 key at the same time. I would use this feature constantly if it were available. Seeing that the VK keys are options in the drop-down I was hopeful this would work.
Have y'all tried AutoHotkey yet?
The fact that the VK for left-click doesn't work is mentioned earlier.
Have y'all tried AutoHotkey yet?
The fact that the VK for left-click doesn't work is mentioned earlier.
Ya I read that too, I was just adding in my use case.
I'd prefer not to use autohotkey. I have tried it, thanks.
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