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Archive for January 19th, 2024

PowerToys Keyboard Manager utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/19

It looks like after decades, ReMapKey (from the Windows 2000 and 20023 Resource Kits, see If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook… (via: Google Chrome – Google+)) got a successor:

[Wayback/Archive] PowerToys Keyboard Manager utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs:

The PowerToys Keyboard Manager enables you to redefine keys on your keyboard.

For example, you can exchange the letter A for the letter B on your keyboard. When you press the A key, a B will display.

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You can also exchange shortcut key combinations. For example: The shortcut key Ctrl+C will copy text in Microsoft Word. With PowerToys Keyboard Manager utility, you can exchange that shortcut for ⊞ Win+C. Now, ⊞ Win+C will copy text. If you do not specify a targeted application in PowerToys Keyboard Manager, the shortcut exchange will be applied globally across Windows.

PowerToys Keyboard Manager must be enabled (with PowerToys running in the background) for remapped keys and shortcuts to be applied. If PowerToys is not running, key remapping will no longer be applied.

The real kicker however, is that the new PowerToys Keyboard Manager can be application specific:

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Posted in Power User, PowerToys, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »

Konstantin Ryabitsev yesterday won Mastodon: “I believe that tree is in a detached state.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/19

I laughed a bit too hard: [Wayback/Archive] @monsieuricon@social.kernel.org: “@torvalds I believe that tree is in a detached state.” in a response to

[Wayback/Archive] Linus Torvalds @torvalds@social.kernel.org: Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason.…

Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason. One among hundreds in the area, but this is the one that took out *our* power and Internet.

PGE (Portland General Electric) claims we should get power back by 10pm today, but the ice storm arrives today, so we’ll see.

Edit: well, it looks like PGE fixed the outage by just removing me from the outage database, not by actually reconnecting power. That was the second time that happened, so I re-re-reported the outage. Not that I was hugely optimistic about the 10pm timeframe, but it looks even less likely now.

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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management | 2 Comments »