[launcher] - Handling keyboard shortcuts in launcher must be in sync with the rest of powerToys

[alekhyareddy28]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

• Right now Launcher uses the NHotKey.Wpf nuget package for handling keyboard shortcuts (like Alt+Space).
• They have another set of code in the Shell Plugin to over ride Win+R keypress.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

• To unify the way in which keyboard shortcuts are handled.
• This must be similar to FancyZones and Keyboard Remapper - using low level keyboard hooks.

[weitzhandler]

I used to use Alt+Space to launch the command line from VS. Now PowerToys seems to have taken over this shortcut.
This is total deal breaker. Anything I can do until this issue is addressed?

[crutkas]

@weitzhandler you can override it in settings

[weitzhandler]

Tried to look it up unsuccessfully, I must be missing something.

[crutkas]

@weitzhandler

[mastoj]

hm, I changed the shortcut to "Win + Alt + Space", but it still opens the Window menu control, that is, I can't run the launcher.

[weitzhandler]

It seems the Open PowerToys Run text-box doesn't accept any Win key shortcuts.

Ideally, what mostly makes sense to me, would be Win+Q, which is similar to Visual Studio's Ctrl+Q.
Win+Q can be achieved with Win+S by default.

[crutkas]

Fixed in 0.19.0, please visit https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/ for the latest release

[xt0rted]

@crutkas my original issue from #3279 still persists. I can't use AutoHotkey to map Win + Space to F13 and trigger on that, this does work in Wox though. I could use Win + Space directly but almost every time I use that the start menu opens which doesn't happen with AutoHotkey.

[danbrakeley]

@crutkas also issue #3269 still persists. I can't use just Caps Lock (with no modifier) as the trigger for PowerToys Run. I can use Shift+Caps Lock.

[weitzhandler]

@crutkas
Thanks.
This issue was very frustrating.
But I didn't know about it up until now.
Would be nice if you can either set the default setting to Win+R/S, or have a little tooltip that suggests using these shortcuts.
I tried a nice few others and was frustrated that it didn't work and disabled PowerToys Run.