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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: bavman on Sat, 10 September 2011, 00:03:54

Title: key remapping
Post by: bavman on Sat, 10 September 2011, 00:03:54

How would I go about remapping some of my useless keys like insert, scroll lock etc to more useful stuff like volume up/down and more media functions? I tried ahk but i dont like it cause it doesnt make changes of the o/s level. It just catches keystrokes. So what do you gguys think? This is ffor windows 7

Title: key remapping
Post by: bavman on Sat, 10 September 2011, 00:32:56

Also is there something llike a usb media keypad that basically just hhas media control keys? I saw one on the forums some time ago but it was in the 70-80 price range. I'd like something dirty cheap. even if its a rubber dome board I'd be fine with that

Title: key remapping
Post by: Tony on Sat, 10 September 2011, 00:46:25

Autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com) is fine for most of users. For permanent uses you need a bit of knowledge in programming and specific OS API functions.

Even OS is catching keystrokes all the time, so you can't go deeper than that.

Title: key remapping
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 12 September 2011, 17:59:56

You can make a customized keymap, most media keys like next, previous, volume, play/pause etc. are assignable. Use MSKLC (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665), or SharpKeys (http://www.randyrants.com/2008/12/sharpkeys_30.html).