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Allow the use of PrntScrn key as a shortcut #24

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Gyoo opened this issue Jun 15, 2024 · 1 comment
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Allow the use of PrntScrn key as a shortcut #24

Gyoo opened this issue Jun 15, 2024 · 1 comment
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@Gyoo
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Gyoo commented Jun 15, 2024

On Windows 11, I'd like to use Ctrl+PrntScrn as the shortcut for Snip Screenshot, but when I press the two keys in the settings, nothing happens.
Would it be possible to enable the use of the PrntScrn key in the shortcuts ?

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yeahitsjan commented Jun 18, 2024

Hey @Gyoo, the problem is that the PrntScrn key is a specific hardware key of Windows itself and is grabbed by the operating system before the key reaches any application. So this is quite impossible to fix..

EDIT: Also QHotkey and Pawxel itself are quite unmaintained currently. I could open up an issue inside the QHotkey repo still, if you want to but I think the result is going to be the same also because this just means its a Windows-specific change. It seems like LowLevelKeyboardProc is the way to go and catch this but there is no guarantee when implementing this, that Windows reserves this spot in future once and forever for its own screenshotting tools.

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