Disabling original key function for hotkeys

autohotkeyteamspeak

This question is directly related to teamspeak and gaming, but, could be expanded to broader fields, but, I wasn't able to find much regarding hotkeys except for here in the Arqade, hence my asking here. (other places I've looked were general Google searches, and searches on superuser as that's what I thought would be most relevant)

In teamspeak, I have bound my right alt to talk and menu key to switch channel. The issue arises though when the game (or w/e other application) I'm in also do things with these keys.

In short, I would like to have left alt remain as left alt, but, have right alt and menu key to only serve as a teamspeak hotkey, and have no input be sent to any other application. The only solution that comes close to solving this issue in my own research is autohotkey, but I've not actually found a solution yet. (the answer doesn't have to be an autohotkey script, but from my understanding, that's probably in the vicinity of the simplest solution, I could be wrong.)

Best Answer

After experimenting and failing at using autohotkey to achieve this, I stumbled across a request link on TeamSpeak's forums which asked for an equivalent to Ventrilo's 'discard' key. This request was made several years back, so, I decided to search the options for it.

Under TeamSpeak 3 > settings > options > hotkeys first I had to change the dropdown on the bottom right from "Default" to "Keyboard and Mouse Only" then, after right-clicking the hotkey in question and clicking "Edit Hotkey" There was now a new "discard" checkbox. Checking that by itself didn't fix it though, since the detected keybind is apparently different. After having changed the setting from "default" to "keyboard and mouse only", new hotkey binds are appended with "(Keyboard)", so I rebound to get that binding.

After applying these new settings, the original keyboard input is successfully "discarded," with no functions of the original keys being passed through to underlying applications.

Related Solutions

Do I need to pay for a Teamspeak server

The Teamspeak software is free of charge. You can setup your own server and use the clients as much as you want. Just download them from here.

But a Teamspeak server requires bandwidth and some other resources, so there are different service provider that charge you for a Teamspeak server.

That said, here are your options:

If you already have an own server / virtual server you can install the Teamspeak server and use it for no additional charge.
You can lease a professional Teamspeak server (just search for "teamspeak server hosting")
You can try a free / public Teamspeak server (just search for "teamspeak server public free")

Personally I own a virtual server and have setup my own Teamspeak server. It is not that hard to do.

Dota – Remapping Alt Key to Space bar and Using Profiles

This is an old question but because I got an answer I thought I could share it.

I think this is exactly what I did for myself https://github.com/bemug/dota2cfg

The good news is that it can be done right in source scripting, you don't need external tools.

Basically I remap the space key to a modifier using source script, and when I press space, it execute a file containing some bindings. When I release it, it execute another file overriding these bindings with new ones.

alias +keyShift "exec bindingsOnPress"
alias -keyShift "exec bindingsOnRelease"
bind "SPACE" "+keyShift"

Hope this helps :)