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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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[–] p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

My laptop had UEFI update that fixed the key-up thing and mentioned it allows holding the key in the changelog. So make sure to check for updates if you care

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I remaped it to screenshot on hyprland

[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 10 points 1 day ago

Everything is remapable if you are good enough at soldering

[–] chraebsli@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

why even buy that slop of hardware beforehand? if you dont want that feature, you might be happier with another brands laptop

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Find me a good recent laptop without a cockpilot key

[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

*Sry for the washed out colors. This was originally an HDR video.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Leave it in HDR next time. As someone who owns an HDR monitor and a phone with an HDR display, there is simply not enough content out there outside of movies and games.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

My winter heating bill halved when I switched to HDR mode on my monitor.

[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I converted the original video to a GIF and that is sadly the outcome.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah and I'm asking you to please don't lol

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What do you mean? The human eye can't see more than 720p.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

That's what they want you to believe 🤫

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Its not immune from removal via knife

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Noted. Do not buy used laptops with microslop cancer button.

A shame because they're all still good hardware. Just don't want to deal with the cursed button.

Yeah I've bought my last couple laptops from my company's asset disposal department, I've gotten pretty good deals and usually just need to replace the battery after a few years. Not looking forward to when their stock starts getting into the models with slop buttons.

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[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 158 points 2 days ago

Congrats Microsoft, you managed to enshittify a goddamn keyboard key.

[–] spacelord@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Doesn't seem to be present on my keyboard. 😁 keyboard image

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

this is the truly Alienware keyboard

[–] Ixoid@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

My eyes, my eyes!

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, wow. There it is. The keyboard of my dreams.
Using one of these while on acid does not seem advisable, though.

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[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 170 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm gonna hug my old ThinkPad when I get home today

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (10 children)

It's the Bixby Button all over again.

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[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why would you buy this garbage?

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 30 points 2 days ago (18 children)

It is shocking difficult to buy a new laptop without one. Yes, I know about Framework, System 76, etc, but go to your local big box store and every laptop is covered in either Microsoft logos or Apple logos.

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[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

An embarrassing new low, even with the bars they've already set. And fitting, for this being the (egregiously multiply-) branded button to launch the shit show. Christ, this has been a fucking carnival lmao.

Microslop has now regressed to implementing "features" very closely resembling - in sophistication and effect - my own bumbling, desperate, ignorant attempts at similar ("making a button behave like a macro"), using AutoHotKey, somewhere between 15-20 years ago.

And do I understand that they both shipped that, on hardware, AND it's broken so badly it can't be easily remedied?

I don't know what to say. It's like all the geniuses of comedy who died too young are doing this, all of it.


(No shade whatsoever to AHK, it was, probably still is, awesome at its job!)


Edit: suddenly realized it's just on purpose, probably. Anyway, rant remains lol

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The WHATNOW is impossible to properly remap?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly X11 keystroke and modifier management is not that good. Because were it better, you could map any sequence to a different kind of action, possibly intercepting them. Instead you have keystrokes with modifiers, sometimes the keystroke is the modifier key alone. One can work around some things of this with, say, WM menus in FVWM called by one keystroke with modifier and then keybindings for menu items to have something like Emacs UX.

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[–] texture@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

happy to be typing this comment on a framework laptop, where no such key is to be found.

interesting post, and thanks for the info. i cant believe the crap MS pulls. Linux is easier than ever. Join us.

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