I used to have one of those gaming keyboards that lets you reprogram any key - I’m back to just a standard keyboard, but this seems like the kind of thing a modern computer should be able to do without a “gaming” peripheral.

What I’d really like to do is rebind my caps lock key, because the only time I ever use caps lock is on accident lol. Hoping to rebind it to be my push-to-talk key, so if I could make it do something like a zero-width-space that’ll basically turn it into an input key that does nothing except when I tell something like Discord to use that as ptt.

I’m only surface-level competent with computers, so explain-like-I’m-your-grandma or I’ll probably fuck something up.

Thanks all!!

  • pm_me_your_titties@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m on my phone so I can’t give the handhold instructions.

    Try using SharpKeys to remap CapsLock to be F13 (a key that used to exist but most keyboards don’t include anymore). Then set F13 as your PTT key in Discord.

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      7 months ago

      This appears to have worked!!

      No more annoying caps lock key, and I now I have a ptt that won’t screw with anything else! Fuck yeah!

      Thank you so much!