Caps Lock as Hyper Key Hold duration too short for repeated actions like arrow cursor movement

[Hipcat]

Describe the bug

I have set -Caps Lock/Hyper Key + J/I/K/L- to act as arrow keys. When holding a key combination for roughly less than 1 second the desired behavior of a held arrow press is observed. After this short duration the input ceases. Single presses work correctly, and repressing and holding does work for another roughly 1 second.

Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):

MacBook Air M2 keyboard

Device information:

• Type of Mac: MacBook Air M2
• macOS version: 13.1
• BetterTouchTool version: BetterTouchTool 3.952

Additional information (e.g. StackTraces, related issues, screenshots, workarounds, etc.):

When holding the Hyper keys manually (command + option + control + shift) and the corresponding shortcut key (J, I, K, L) the desired behavior of arrow key inputs is correct, so I believe the problem is in the Hyper Key 'hold duration.'

[Frank1]

If you want try this. First disable hyperkeys.

Then go to: System Preferences▸Keyboard▸Modifier Keys.
Set „caps lock“ to „ctrl“

It does not show it, but now „caps lock“ is the new physical „right control“ key, which you normally don't have on your keyboard. „left control“ key remains what it was.

BTT allows you to set up shortcuts that only work with the left or right modifier.

So, right control (caps lock) + "j" can be your left arrow. etc. Left control + j can do something else.

This should work well.

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

Thanks @Frank1, I'll soon add this to the documentation (but I'll also look to fix the Hyper Key issues)