Caps Lock as Hyper Key - delay when toggling Caps Lock On/Off

[caddy2290]

Following these instructions: Defining a Hyper Key · BetterTouchTool Documentation , I set Caps Lock as my Hyper Key. I also set a trigger so that Caps Lock still works when the Hyper Key is not used. All of this works perfectly. Unfortunately, I notice a slight delay when activating Caps Lock. In my opinion, this delay is added directly by MacOS, ref.:

- Caps Lock Delay - how to fix it - Apple Community

Before I set up HyperKey, I used this hack:

hidutil property --set '{"CapsLockDelayOverride":0}'

However, it seems that this does not work in conjunction with BTT. I tried installing https://hyperkey.app/, which works more or less the same as Hyper Key in BTT, and I don't have this problem with this application. When Caps Lock is pressed briefly, it is activated immediately. But of course, I would like to use BTT exclusively.

Does anyone know if there is anything that can be done about this? Some kind of hidden config or something? Thanks.

[lukasvac]

I’ve been using the same setup for about a week now, because I hadn’t noticed earlier that it’s also possible to assign a secondary action to a pressed Caps Lock without any additional keys. I don’t notice any delay on either the MacBook’s internal keyboard or an external one. It takes about a second for the LED to light up, but the Caps Lock function is available immediately after releasing the key.