Question / Help Can I have a shortcut to enable/disable hotkeys ?

[Dihelson]

Sometimes I need to disable all hotkeys in order to use the keyboard for other functions and softwares while OBS is working. Is there kind of a shortcut or hotkey to enable/disable all hotkeys themselves ?

I wish I had a second keyboard to use only on OBS, but windows always recognize all keyboards as one only, at least that I know.

Thanks !

 

[FerretBomb]

There is no shortcut-disable in OBS. The only real option is to use non-conflicting hotkey combinations.

As a side note, the third-party program AutoHotKey might have a hotkey-set switch ability, and the ability to set and use extra HID spec keys that exist in software but not generally in hardware, like the F13-F24 keys, and a few others. You might be able to set AHK to translate a normal keypress combo (like CTRL+SHIFT+A) into an extra-HID key (F13) and then bind F13 as your OBS hotkey. Then switch between hotkey sets in AHK with a different key combo.

We can't provide specific support for AHK here, but if something like that is possible, it would be a potential workaround.

 

[Dihelson]

There is no shortcut-disable in OBS. The only real option is to use non-conflicting hotkey combinations.

As a side note, the third-party program AutoHotKey might have a hotkey-set switch ability, and the ability to set and use extra HID spec keys that exist in software but not generally in hardware, like the F13-F24 keys, and a few others. You might be able to set AHK to translate a normal keypress combo (like CTRL+SHIFT+A) into an extra-HID key (F13) and then bind F13 as your OBS hotkey. Then switch between hotkey sets in AHK with a different key combo.

We can't provide specific support for AHK here, but if something like that is possible, it would be a potential workaround.

Thank you so much. I'll give it a try, auto hotkey, and see what we can do. Perhaps even using exotic sequences like Control C A M ( for enabling camera ).