Any mechanism to disable special Windows LALT/LGUI press/release behavior?

[ncbrowns]

I've been trying to use home row mods on Windows using a mechanism like the "advanced" example with the GACS ordering.

One thing I find myself doing sometimes is accidentally holding down "a" or "s" (mapped to LGUI-LMET / LALT) or the mirrored "l" and ";" long enough for it to register as a hold only to realize that I didn't want to use that modifier. When I release the key, it triggers the start menu (LGUI-LMET) or the app menu in many applications (LALT). I'd sort of like to disable both behaviors, but I couldn't find a way to do this. I was originally thinking that tap-hold-release-timeout with a NOP timeout action could do the job. But that extra action appears to be triggered when the hold timeout is reached rather than by the release of the "hold" action without any other keys pressed. Is there some mechanism that I'm missing?

One workaround I've discovered is to just hold a second modifier (e.g., LCTL) and then release both keys. Maybe that ends up being good enough.

[gerhard-h]

tap-hold-release or tap-hold-press with a long timeout may work - I used up to 5000ms at the start

[ncbrowns]

@gerhard-h I assume the idea behind the long timeout is that if I set the hold timeout to 5000ms and realize within 5s that I don't want the "Alt" modifier, I'd just release the key and prevent the (hold) activation of LAlt or LWin. I think that "works" for avoiding the modifiers. But I think that would instead result in a tap of the home row character ("a" or "s" for the left modifiers).

[gerhard-h]

But I think that would instead result in a tap of the home row character ("a" or "s" for the left modifiers).

not tested but you could try nesting another (tap-hold-release 1 5000 (tap-hold 1 1000 a XX) lmet)