Modifying Trackpoint speed on the fly by holding down a modifier

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Hello! Absolutely loving my UHK. I’m hoping to be able to have a different trackpoint sensitivity (higher speed) when holding down left shift (while still maintaining the functionality of left shift). I’ve been playing around a fair bit but haven’t been able to figure out how to accomplish this. Any suggestions are deeply appreciated.

Thanks everyone!

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Hi!

Macro commands will do the trick.

Either a simple variant using mouse keys acceleration modifier (which simply doubles the speed):

startMouse accelerate
holdKey iLS
stopMouse accelerate

Or finer control via the set command. E.g.:

set module.trackpoint.speed 1.5
holdKey iLS
set module.trackpoint.speed 0.8

For more info, see firmware/doc-dev/user-guide.md at master · UltimateHackingKeyboard/firmware · GitHub and firmware/doc-dev/reference-manual.md at master · UltimateHackingKeyboard/firmware · GitHub

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You can also do this in the UI with the following option, though it doesn’t give you the same precision as the macro

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(He wants the key to act as an acceleration modifier and shift at the same time.)

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Amazing! This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much. If I wanted to do this for a different key, like space for example, where is the documentation showing the “iLS” equivalent? I looked on GitHub and wasn’t able to find it. Thanks again!

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For a list of key abbreviations, see the grammar in the reference manual linked above - search for SHORTCUT and SCANCODE_ABBREV. For space, it’s holdKey space.

For a user friendly explanation, see the user guide and search for basic principles.

For a more formal and exhaustive explanation, search the reference manual for MODMASK, SHORTCUT, holdKey and composition modes.

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Many thanks. You rock! And so does this keyboard!

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