ThumbStickCuts

A simple WPF app that allows to bind shortcuts to a gamepad thumbsticks.

But why?

I'm daily driving a Steamdeck as a portable windows PC.

While you can bind different keys and shortcuts using something like HandheldCompanion. It lacks the ability to quickly change bindings.

This little app on the other hand allows one to bind 72 different shortcuts in a single config file, and quickly switch between configs.

How to use it with my windows handheld?

I'm using it in combination with HandheldCompanion with any bindings removed from thumbsticks

How to choose a shortcut?

Use Right stick to select a zone.

Use Left stick to select an action.

Right stick click switches to the next layout

Left stick click toggles the window visibility

How do I setup my custom bindings?

Look at the default config examples. then place your config.json file into the configs folder.

There're 9 zones that you can choose from:

[
  "Center",
  "Left",
  "Right",
  "Top",
  "Bottom",
  "TopLeft",
  "TopRight"
  "BottomLeft",
  "BottomRight",
]

Each zone can hold up to 8 shortcuts.

How do I specify a shortcut?

each shortcut consists of two fields: Action and Icon

{ "Action": "Ctrl+c", "Icon": "c" }

You can simply type: "Ctrl+Shift+s" into the Action field

To specify multiple shortcuts at once split them with a comma:

{ "Action": "Ctrl+k,Ctrl+o", "Icon": "c" }

Not that it's super usefull, but you can even bind whole sentences like that:

{ "Action": "Shift+h,e,l,l,o, ,w,o,r,l,d", "Icon": "c" }

Alternatively you can use VirtualKeyCode values from InputSimulatorCore

{ "Icon": "*", "Action": "Ctrl+OEM_COMMA" } 

How do I specify a shortcut icon?

This app uses RobotoMono Nerd Font Mono from nerd-fonts

Please make sure your text editor of choise has this font installed.

You can open the font file with something like Character Map UWP

Simply copy paste the glyph you like into the "Icon" field.

I don't have a handheld, can I still use this?

Sure, you can use it with any windows compatible gamepad that has thumbsticks, although I don't know why would you do that :)