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towlerg:
I've recently started using "Mouse without boarders" as a 2 PC KVM (2 PC's, 2 monitors but only 1 mouse and keyboard) but obviously without the V in KVM.

It real is no big deal but when I move the mouse from one PC/Monitor to the other, LC is launched on the PC/Monitor losing focus. Hard to verify I know if you don't have 2 PC's and 2 monitors.

I guess it's something to do with the way MWB hooks the keyboard. Win 7 sp1 x64

George

 

mouser:
It real is no big deal but when I move the mouse from one PC/Monitor to the other, LC is launched on the PC/Monitor losing focus.
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Are you saying that just moving the mouse between monitors causes LaunchBar Commander to display, or are you saying that when you bring up LBC it's on the wrong monitor?

IainB:
@towlerg: The oddity that you describe may have something to do with other existing/reserved hotkey or Windows hotkey combinations.
For example, I have an AHK (Auotohotkey) subroutine (script) that triggers a "peek under" functionality. The hotkey combination for this is an ON/OFF toggle - CTRL+LEFTSHIFT+Alt+U -  which is quite complicated, so it's unlikely to be accidentally pressed to invoke that subroutine. Each time the toggle is used, it triggers or untriggers the peek under function, which the function announces each time as a state change, with the message "Peek under has just been enabled" or "Peek under has just been disabled".

So I was somewhat confused when peek under started being invoked without my say-so. I eventually figured out that it was the Win+Left-Click combo that was doing it (this is consistently repeatable). So AHK was/is treating CTRL+LEFTSHIFT+Alt+U as being equal to Win+Left-Click. I feel sure there'll be an explanation somewhere for this equivalence, but I don't know what it is.

How does this relate to LBC? Well, another interesting thing is that, at the same time as peek under is being toggled, the LBC drop-down menu will sometimes also be toggled ON/OFF.
I normally toggle LBC with the hotkey combo CTRL+LEFTSHIFT+Alt+L - which is just one key different to the peek under hotkey. My experience is that LBC has always been a pain as it inconsistently responds to the hotkeys set to invoke it, but I suspect it could be some kind of a priority interrupt or key buffer collision that is going on here, as there are some other odd things that I have separately raised regarding LBC (which I don't think @mouser has had time to get around to sorting out yet):
Couple of queries and an odd thing - using LBC v1.154.2.0 (2018-11-21)
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-IainB (December 01, 2018, 03:07 AM)
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mouser:
Hmm, please do remind me what LBC issues there are..

Normally you can set a custom hotkey to show or hide a dock..  The Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L is a global hotkey for LBC to bring up its options -- sometimes useful if LBC is somehow off screen due to a monitor change.

IainB:
Hmm, please do remind me what LBC issues there are..
-mouser (December 16, 2018, 06:40 AM)
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I just did!    :D   -IainB (2018-12-01, 03:07:13)

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