Good morning,

I have used Start11 for a while now, and I'm generally happy with it.  I'm also using a lot of autohotkey bindings -- and many of these are bindings that use the windows key.  I'm also using synergy to use my desktop keyboard on a secondary machine: this is supposed to make all keys go to that client machine.

Recently I started having issues where an autohotkey binding brings up the start menu instead of doing what it's supposed to be doing.  There was also one occasion where using such a binding via synergy made the start menu popup on the desktop (which is also using start11) -- and that's the first time that I saw this kind of failure.

I finally decided to look more into this, and saw this blurb in the recent blog post:

... enhancements to how the Windows key functions including the ability to enable a block when a full-screen application is running and enhancements for when the foreground app is elevated.

So my guess is that this new change (which seems like it's correlated with when I started having these problems) is responsible for these problems -- probably the key grabbing that Start11 is doing is at a low-enough level that it snatches it away from autohotkey and (more surprisingly) from synergy.

Is there a way to disable this new functionality?