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The new Micro~~soft~~slop 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.

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

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[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was able to remap it with Autohotkey on Windows.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I used PowerToys and it's now Right Control again. It was probably easier than finding drivers for Linux.

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Note to self: start looking into building my own keyboards if it ever becomes standard, somehow.

[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

It's worth taking a look in the BIOS/ UEFI setup - maybe the key can be remapped there? Once the default F-key behaviour could be defined in there for ThinkPad devices.

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[–] SUDO@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't KDE say they were working on a way to remap it in a future update?

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

I remaped it to screenshot on hyprland

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Smells like antitrust violations.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But if you slap Linux on it, it just does nothing then or is it mapped as old AltGr or whatever?

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Neither, it will be as if you pressed all those keys in the list above, which will most of the time do nothing

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus. I guess we're going to have to start figuring out how to reverse engineer our keyboards so we can install QMK on random built-in laptop keyboards and cheap Logitech membrane keyboards to repair the damage Microsoft has done to them.

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