Windows 11 is testing a new “feature” that will let you reassign the Copilot key to do nothing. Yes, literally.
      • MartianSands@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        That’s nonsense. To do what it does, it sends a signal to the operating system. It’s entirely within the operating system’s power to do something different when it gets that signal

        • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          10·
          3 days ago

          I went searching for the article I read after posting my comment. Either I misread a headline, or misremembered details. Regardless, I was plain wrong and deleted my comment

          • MartianSands@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            13·
            3 days ago

            You probably saw something which said the key can’t be remapped, which is likely to be true but only because windows won’t let you, rather than being any kind of technical problem

            • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              Supposedly the key sends weird signals that make it harder to use like any other key. Where a normal key would send KeyDown when pressed and KeyUp when released it sends a bunch of KeyDown and KeyUp when pressed and nothing when it’s released.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    I want my context menu key back. Without having to press fn. Sure, usually you can right click, but there are enough times where the key is a better option, and you don’t have to take your hands off the keyboard to use it.

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Shift+F10 can probably be mapped to whatever you want (except, apparently, the key referenced in this post).

  • ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I had to install whatever powertools/toys to remap it to do nothing. It was on the day I got that new company laptop.

    I was just hitting it by mistake, and as I’m in EU, I did uninstall all the copilot crap anyway.

    On my plus side, I got my calculator key mapped to the shrug emoji ¯_(ツ)_/¯

      • ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yes, I assume I should escape the backslash in Lemmy. Let’s dry doubling it. ¯\(ツ)/¯

        Holy f it’s even worse, kill it with fire or something