Best way to toggle keyboard keys for a gaming macro? (sh.itjust.works)

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Running Nixos with Gnome, and I have Piper with libratbag for my Logitech many button mouse.

I'd like to toggle a pair of keyboard keys up and down together via a mouse button. Hit the mouse button: both keyboard keys are pressed and stay pressed. Hit it again: both keyboard keys come unpressed.

Piper doesn't seen to support it, and I was looking at the Gnome accessibility settings without success.

Happy for suggestions!

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[-] RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

Have you looked at AutoHotKey (AHK)?

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

No, but that looks suitable! Thank you.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Oh neat, I didn't realize they added Linux support!

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