Recently, I start to using windows for my personal project. One thing I hate about is the keyboard mappings.

I want to basically do the following mappings

1 Caps lock key -> Left Ctrl key 2 Left Alt key -> Left Ctrl key 3 Left Windows key -> Left Alt key

I was using the . The first two key mapping works fine, however, the third mapping has the problem. For example, “Win+W” should suppose to map to “Alt+W” which corresponding to the “Copy” in emacs, however, it opens the “Pen” app in the Windows.

I did some research, and found another tool, which called the AutoHotKey. Although this tool is quite nice to do some specific customizations, it is not good for my perticular use cases. By looking through the guide on https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm#registry, it points out to a different application, which is called KeyTweak.

By using the KeyTweak, I was able to map the “Win” key to “Alt” key without having any issues.


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