Between Steam, recording software, and the key bindings in my games themselves, I sometimes have more functionality that I would like to bind to hotkeys than I have function keys on my keyboard. I have 12 function keys built into my laptop. Is there some peripheral I can use to add more function keys to bind?
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Logitech has the G13 which has 25 programmable 'G-keys' which you can bind to any action (even macros).
The best approach would be to simply rebind some of the commands to include modifiers. Shift+Tab is not a combination most games use, so Steam uses it for their overlay. You can most likely rebind your recording program's "Start recording" command to use Ctrl+Play/Pause or something similar.
Since you mention that you're on a laptop, if you are dead set on independent buttons you could remap commands to the numpad keys and plug in a USB numpad.
If you want to get really fancy, there are technically 24 Function keys: F13-F24 have completely valid scancodes and OS-level API representations. They're rarely included in physical devices, but you could use software like AutoHotkey to remap keys (or combinations) so they fire F13-F24 instead.
While browsing Arqade, I stumbled across GlovePIE, which will let me use my gaming peripherals as additional keys for my laptop as well.
Edit:
Link no longer available. See https://web.archive.org/web/20140507073550/http://glovepie.org:80/lpghjkwer.php for the download links.
answered Jun 13, 2014 at 16:50
