With the new MacBook Pro, Apple added back a physical escape key. This means that GC will have a redundant escape key, so I’m working on an option to disable the escape key on the Touch Bar entirely! I’ll use this thread to post updates.
@Andreas_Hegenberg one question for you - will it be possible to detect the 16” mbp somehow, perhaps with a new BTT internal variable like “has_physical_esc_key”?
If you have or are getting a 16” MBP, let me know because I will definitely need your help testing!
GC uses its own custom escape button implementation! So this setting wouldn’t do anything for GC users. Additionally, GC has a few custom behaviors around the escape key that the UI would need to accommodate for when it’s turned off.
That said, I also want it to hide automatically if you’re using the new MacBook. I don’t think this should be a user-facing option.
I think I'm missing something. 'show escape key on left side' is missing from my BTT Touch Bar settings. Using AQT with BTT and am unable to hide escape key.
Any updates on this? I really like the default touch bar in some apps (illustrator for instance), but never use the software escape key. So it would love the option to remove it and have some more touch bar space. Or the option to replace it with something useful like a clock would be great as well. I don't seem to be able to do that while keeping all the other default touch bar functionalities.
Isn't this function in the new version yet? Or is it disabled because I'm on a 13" MBP (with esc mapped to the upper-leftmost physical key, eg. the useless paragraph symbol key)?
When I use normal escape key on my MacBook Pro 16 with Golden Chaos I have some lags in some programs. It becomes like low fps low responsible until I press some other keys (not escape). If I disable Golden Chaos profile, problem gone.
I'm also getting a lot of lag (16" MBP in Catalina) in most of my programs with Golden Chaos to the point where I have to turn off BTT completely in order to do anything. I have most things turned off outside of weather, media, brightness and volume controls. In addition, my physical esc and mapped esc key (caps lock) both do not work with vim with iTerm2 anymore.
Yeah, using it on my new 13" right now; we need a way to completely get rid of the maximize/escape key. I've been scouring BTT itself to see if it's a module, but it doesn't seem like it. How easy would a fix be/how soon could it be pushed?
It might just be a settings toggle right? A hardware-aware implementation isn't necessary I think
@GoldenChaos In addition, the Touch Bar on the new models is a different width, so both the control and option menus are broken (overspaced/too much width). Won't take much for me to hard code in a fix, but I just wanted to let you know.
@maxyj02 haha, the issue I was asking about was the lag, but it seems like things are not lagging for you on your 16"?
Setting window esc hiding switch + 16" default settings that hide the esc key automatically coming in the next version will also fix the sizing of things across the board, thanks for reminding me!
will also fix the sizing of things across the board, thanks for reminding me!