Keyboard Manager: allow remapping Power button

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Summary of the new feature/enhancement

I have a really ugly keyboard, without an End key, but with a power off key:

I tried to use the keyboard manager to remap that key to End. But when I press that button with the following dialog open, Windows shuts down...

I also tried to configure Windows to do nothing when the power button is pressed (within the Windows Control Panel), but in this case the above dialog doesn't intercept it and nothing happens.

Is this an impossible mission?

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

IDK 😉

[crutkas]

This may be a hardware key like Fn key. It may also vary keyboard by keyboard.

[crutkas]

@arjunbalgovind assuming we can't remap this?

[arjunbalgovind]

Yes, the Power key does not send a virtual keyboard message and it doesn't have a virtual key code either so it isn't something that we can remap. That said, it might be possible with SharpKeys since it is registry-based, however based on this issue on the SharpKeys repo, the power key is hardware dependent and may not work on all keyboards, so you could give that a try.

[Jay-o-Way]

Often times the power button has a separate cable going to the motherboard, so I think ramapping will be impossible for most of the times. And that's still said careful.

[saahmedm]

Not possible to remap hardware-level keys. (Fn key is another example)