• Fix: do not close immediately on error
• Fix: increase keyberon key queue size to help with long tap-hold durations
• Fix(Linux): change locking pattern causing unresponsiveness in some cases
• Fix(Windows): release shift properly on shifted arrows
• Fix(Windows-Interception): correction of deflocalkeys-wintercept
• Fix(Windows-Interception): fix issue with Interception driver sending Esc
• Fix(Windows-Interception): use Interception mouse movement instead of SendInput
• Added: -timeout variants of tap-hold that add a third potential action
• Added: pretty errors using the miette crate
• Added: make defcfg optional
• Added: allow disabling of layer logging
• Added: ensure all keys are released at the end of a dynamic macro
• Added: tap-hold-release-keys
• Added(Linux): mouse move support to Linux
• Added(Linux): systemd notification when kanata has finished starting up
• Added(Windows-Interception): use SendInput for arbitrary-code in Interception as well

The binaries with the name cmd_allowed are conditionally compiled with the cmd action enabled.

Using the regular binaries, there is no way to get the cmd action to work. This action is restricted behind conditional compilation because I consider the action to be a security risk that should be explicitly opted into and completely forbidden by default.

Warning: known issue

This issue in the Interception driver exists: https://github.com/oblitum/Interception/issues/25. This will affect you if you put your PC to sleep instead of shutting it down, or if you frequently plug/unplug USB devices.

Description

These variants use the Interception driver instead of Windows hooks. You will need to install the driver using the assets from the linked website or from the copy in this repo. The benefit of using this driver is that it is a lower-level mechanism than Windows hooks. This means kanata will work in more applications, including administrator-privileged apps.

Steps to install the driver

• extract the .zip
• run a shell with administrator privilege
• run the script "command line installer/install-interception.exe"
• reboot

Additional installation steps

The above steps are those recommended by the interception driver author. However, I have found that those steps work inconsistently and sometimes the dll stops being able to be loaded. I think it has something to do with being installed in the privileged location of system32\drivers.

To help with the dll issue, you can copy the following file in the zip archive to the directory that kanata starts from: Interception\library\x64\interception.dll.

E.g. if you start kanata from your Documents folder, put the file there:

C:\Users\my_user\Documents\
    kanata_wintercept.exe
    kanata.kbd
    interception.dll

7e919063e29c85b6fe6a6bbb5e746da329bb04013a569246a85e1ed7c0bc9a14  kanata
87af0cb1612c55693c4aef62e66eba041863bbc0915954e6b80097e9abf7c93e  kanata.exe
b8605a1eb1e1cdfb73ee0cd2cc6fb39a39bc824984f7f31d3c49df9cf9629c1f  kanata.kbd
9bd5aa163b5d1cbf8fda84222a3d8626aad8ee6702c72fd1bef6a9c7955caaad  kanata_cmd_allowed
5d0f27ee95b1bb054b80c02d781bf3117635fe9a54031f313906e970f2759dfa  kanata_cmd_allowed.exe
20bf9b80721b8ef9ebd7fc4bb95e5bd765bad20efc0b7081038f90da64a7388d  kanata_wintercept.exe
f40e3938f081897b2670c55d3103f047fd8f032f9934636604c5fd74d66b434e  kanata_wintercept_cmd_allowed.exe