Press Hyperkey with gesture

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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I've spent a few hours trying various methods to press just the hyperkey using a gesture from the trackpad. I've tried multiple ideas with no avail. BTT suggests to use key sequences. I don't seem to be able to get it to work. Any ideas or help appreciated.

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I can tell you what I do in a similar way with the trackpad. Example for the letter F:

  1. When typing normally, 2 fingers do NOT touch the trackpad. So, as expected, F is typed.

  2. When I place two fingers on the trackpad and then press F, something else is triggered. It needs two triggers.

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What I'm trying to say is that if you don't really need all these modifiers (hyperkey), you can still trigger everything you want in this way with the trackpad.

3

You can make it press the modifier keys like this:

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And release like this

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4

I get that. My use case is where I have decided to use the app Leader key as my system interface. I use BetterTouchTool for many things but I have used it to assign the Caps lock key as my leader key. My problem is that I need to trigger the caps lock from somewhere else, preferably the track pad as that is often my free hand. I appreciate the help.

5

Slightly off topic :slightly_smiling_face:

Sometimes it can be necessary to perform a complicated shortcut with just one hand. In this case, it helps to do it in two steps. For example, perform a trackpad gesture or press a key (modifier) and then press another key.

I was not aware that this works quite well.

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The action “Wait for key press” waits for “Q” here.

So, a trackpad gesture followed by “Q” can trigger Hyper + Q, for example, or any other shortcut.

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Thanks.