sporadically some key events get missed by games

[dkuettel]

I'm out of ideas, maybe someone can help :)

I'm playing a game ("sweet transit"), in windows 11, with kanata 1.7, using wintercept. Keys that I have configured like (tap-hold 0 200 spc lsft) don't reliably make the game react to spc, 1 out of ~5 times the key is ignored. It only happens with tap-hold multi-use keys. It works fine when mapped as a spc plainly.

I don't think it's a kanata bug, but hopefully someone here has some ideas what it could be. This is what I know:

• same behavior with 1.6 and 1.7
• same with any variation (winio, legacy, wintercept)
• didn't notice another game yet that has the problem, only "sweet transit"
• in "sweet transit" it doesn't happen when in a text field, it only happens when using it as a game action (pause in this case)
• even crazier: same problem when I use a hardware mapping keyboard (voyager, no kanata involved)

Especially that last point made me think it's a timing problem? Maybe in this case spc down and spc up come too fast? Is there a way to do something like (hold-for-10ms spc) to simulate a longer keypress? I did try (macro 50 spc) even though it doesn't make so much sense, and the strange thing is: In this case it works almost never, the key is generally ignored.

I see clean down and up events however using the event viewer.

Any ideas are welcome :) I might go and try to talk to the game developers, but I imagine this is too niche for them to care. I don't even quite know where to begin hehe.

[jtroo]

Try adjusting: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#rapid-event-delay

[dkuettel]

This is beautiful, it works. I did have a serious look at the docs but totally missed that option :/ even though it has a good name. Awesome, thank you!