Deactivate Space Cadet, when fn is pressed to enable double tap shift in IntelliJ?

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Hello,
I’m a grateful user of the Space Cadet plugin and I wouldn’t want to miss it.
But since I had to start using IntelliJ Idea for some of my work, I ran into a problem.

IntelliJ heavily relies on things like “double SHIFT” or “double CTRL”, which collides with the Space Cadet plugin.
Is there a way to deactivate the Space Cadet functionality if the thumb/fn key is pressed?

Unfortunately, I’m still fairly new to the firmware.

2

If you use Qukeys instead of SpaceCadet, you can define shift keys on some layers to send parens on tap, but they can be ordinary shift keys on other layers. A macro function can also be used to toggle it on and off globally.

3

Don’t know if I did it in the most intelligent manner but it works (:
Unfortunately it increased my percentage of typos but I think it’s a matter of getting used to it and tweaking the parameters.

Thank you very much!

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Would you be able to share the relevant details of your sketch here? I’m also running into the same problem with IntelliJ and double-tapping shift.

I tried setting my the shift keys to Key_LeftShift and Key_RightShift in my function layer, and Key_LeftParen, Key_RightParen in my primary layer, but I still get a paren when I hold fn and tap a shift key.

This is my Qukeys config:

QUKEYS(
    kaleidoscope::plugin::Qukey(0, KeyAddr(3, 7), Key_LeftShift),      // (/shift
    kaleidoscope::plugin::Qukey(0, KeyAddr(3, 8), Key_RightShift),      // )/shift
  )
  Qukeys.setHoldTimeout(1000);
  Qukeys.setOverlapThreshold(50);
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I had the same issue with SpaceCadet. Instead, I defined a macro (fn+butterfly) to send the “space space”. That was my workaround.