Feature request: Tooltips customize the display position and display text, instead of just displaying an icon at the mouse position.

[lnfuhl]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

This is like the tooltip in the ahk. I put the layer name switch on the right toolbar as shown below.

By the way, does Kanata have a command to directly turn off capslock, just like the "SetCapslockState false command" in ahk?

Describe the solution you'd like.

As above

Describe alternatives you've considered.

As above

Additional context

No response

[gerhard-heide]

By the way, does Kanata have a command to directly turn off capslock, just like the "SetCapslockState false command" in ahk?

On Windows I use (cmd AutoHotkey numlockoff.ah2) in kanata to call an ahk script

#Requires AutoHotKey 2
#NoTrayIcon
state := GetKeyState("NumLock", "T")
if (state) {
	SetNumLockState False
}

I think that is the easiest way, I prefer it over
(cmd-output-keys powershell.exe -NoProfile -NoLogo -NonInteractive "if ($([console]::NumberLock) -match 'True') { echo '(NumLock)' } else { echo '()' }") though I have forgotten why.

[lnfuhl]

@gerhard-heide Thanks!

In my use case, I use the Caps Lock key to tap to switch the layer to ace layer, which is designed for navigation, deletion, uppercase and lowercase switching and other text operations. Among them, the uppercase and lowercase switching is performed by pressing Caps Lock once into acelayer and then press C, but I want to set two separate keys in acelayer to turn on and off uppercase respectively.

My code is as follows:

(defalias
  cl (layer-switch acelayer)     
  bl (layer-switch base)
  crl (layer-switch cellar)
  col (tap-hold-press 200 200 grv (layer-while-held console))
  tl (layer-while-held tablayer)
  nl (layer-switch numpad)

  ext (on-press tap-vkey switch-to-base)
  sChn (macro A-S-2 @ext)
  sEng (macro A-S-1 @ext)
  siptEsc (macro A-S-1 esc @ext)
  sEsc (macro esc @ext)
  sEnt (macro ent @ext)
  sCaps (macro caps @ext)
  sSave (macro C-s @ext)

  ltab (tap-hold-press 200 200 tab @tl)
  rtab (tap-hold-press 200 200  [ @tl)
  hdel (macro S-home bspc)
  wdel (macro C-S-right C-S-left bspc)
  lup (macro up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up)
  ldn (macro down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down)

)

(deflayer (acelayer icon star.png)
  esc  f1   f2   f3   f4      f5   f6   f7   f8      f9   f10  f11  f12                                                   ;;13 esc
  @col  M-;    f2    @nl    4    5    6    7    8    9    0    -    =    bspc                                                   ;;14 grv
  @ltab  home    w    up    tab    @hdel    @wdel    C-left    C-right    pgup    p    @rtab    _    _                    ;;14 tab
  @cl  end  left  down  right    bspc    @sEsc    @ldn    @lup    pgdn    @sSave    @cl    ent                               ;;13 caps
  lsft menu   del  @sCaps    @sEng    @sEnt    @siptEsc     @sChn   ,    .    /    rsft    up                                      ;;13 shift
  lctl lmet lalt            @bl             ralt rmet rctl    left   down  right                                          ;;13 ctrl
)

[gerhard-h]

I want to set two separate keys in acelayer to turn on and off uppercase respectively.

kanata does not know about the current state of CapsLock, that why I suggested ahk or powershell.

But another idea is sCaps (multi caps (layer-switch base-with-caps-on)) where base-with-caps-on also calls acelayer-with-caps-on...