I was opening my pc with a password and noticed that the letters of the keystrokes did not appear in the password-field. It made me suspicious if a key-logger 'snatched' my password.
Opening the pc with a password is a spine reaction, so I went back to check how much would be needed to miss a proper lock-in .. I'm sure enough to proceed to question you here.
Would I in the first place notice, if someone used a keylogger on me? Is letters not appearing in the text-field symptomatic for the use of a key-logger against me? If yes, do I have any chance of finding the key-logger to delete it from my pc?
I've written plenty of appropriate code (opengl + glfw) to suggest, that the keylogger would have to work as a service (added with administrator-credintials?) and be turned on at pc-start to do it's job, but I don't have a clue more than that.
letters of the keystrokes did not appear in the password-field
It could be a scenario; maybe the textbox was out of focus while you were trying to login. Because I beleive that keylogger won't hinder the keypress of a textbox.
According to my experience of getting hardware-input it would seem to be a slim case not to reveal it in a stelthy situation - you must be right.
Related
Solved, see below!
Is there a way to reset keyboard layouts in general in Windows 10?
I messed up using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator some time ago, and I'm not able to fix it.
This is NOT something that can be fixed through anything in Language preferences, btw.
Last year, I was stupid enough to try to fix my keyboards on a "lower level".
I use the Norwegian and Korean keyboard a lot, sometimes also Japanese and Canadian French.
I have a hard time using symbols, like ";" - "'" - "~" etc, since these are placed differently on the various keyboards.
I looked for a solution, and found "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator". I tried to fix the keyboards, but it didn't work that well since it had problems with the Korean keyboard. I thus tried to change the Norwegian keyboard somewhat, so that I would be able to write more efficiently, without always checking what keyboard I was using (the Korean one also has the American one ingrained, with a simple push of Alt-Gr).
I also have tried to make a shortcut to go from Norwegian to Korean and back seamlessly, without scrolling through other keyboards as well (Win+Shift scrolls through all available ones).
I don't remember exactly what I did, but it didn't really work out, so I thought I deleted the customized keyboards, and went back to the regular ones.
But there was a problem: one of the keys, VK_OEM_3, the one to the left of "L" to be exact, (";" on a regular US kezboard) no longer worked in Norwegian when used in a regular way. At first, it changed keyboard every time I used it to write regularly. I had set it up to do this when pushed WITH another key (probably AltGr), but something was not right.
I managed to delete the customized keyboards, deleted and reinstalled the Norwegian keyboard from Microsoft, but lo and behold, the key no longer worked. I.e, it works when I push it down for a long time, maybe half a second, and then I get a lot of "øøøø". When using TeamViewer, it dosn't even help to hold the key in for a long time. And the digital keyboard certainly does not work.
I have tried to download other keyboards, and the key works well for A-Z and symbols that exist on a US keyboard.
Thus, the French keyboard, where it is an "M", works well. As does US and Korean keyboard layouts where it is an ";".
But it works as badly for Danish layout, where it is an "Æ" or German layout, where it is an "Ö". Both of these layouts were downloaded for the first time after I had messed up.
I have tried kbdEdit, that made me end up with a German keyboard layout I had a hard time to get rid of, even though I deleted it multiple times from "Langauge preferences".
I haven't learned kbdEdit well though, so it might work out.
But I'm afraid that it might not work, and that I
But what has happened here? I used a Microsoft program, and thought that would be safe enough, even though I was warned it might not work, since it's old. But messing up one key completely...
I have deleted all the new keyboards from the Registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layouts), btw. But it's apparently on a lower level than this, since there are problems with all kinds of keyboards that have "extended Latin" letters on that place.)
What I wonder, is if there is a file that can be replaced with a standard file. I don't really want to reinstall Windows and my hundreds of programs, but I can hardly work in Norwegian the way things are now.
I have to check the phrases for eventual missing "ø", and when I remember the problem, it stops my flow since I have to push down for a long time and then delete the extra "øøø"s.
I finally managed to fix the problem:
Under registry keys, in my case in multiple locations, there is a map called SYSTEM\KeyboardLayout\Substitutes.
I deleted everything but the default one in all of these, and now it works!
Some context
I've recently switched to ubuntu budgie (from unity), and I am really tired of the Plank/panel menu combo. I cannot find a setting that suits me, because depending on my screen setup, there's always something in the wrong place.
I am literally unable to show the menu on certain edges if I activate auto-hide, and if I don't activate it, it's not nice at all, to the point that I have removed the plank thing altogether. (Am I having strange bugs on this OS, or is it really messy?)
My idea
With great frustrations come new ideas. I thought again about one I had in the past. I would like to have a circle menu that pops around my mouse cursor when I press a given key combination (very much the kind of thing you would find in some games).
The main use case is to get "pined" application shortcuts easily when I need them, but perhaps other things would fit well with them (commands ...).
Questions
So my questions are:
Does such a thing already exist?
If it doesn't, is it difficult to realize? (How much time, complexity, ...)
What tools/libraries are needed for such a project? I know I'll find plenty of explanations on the gnome developer website but I could really use some more help.
Since you mention a buggy behaviour on Plank, depending on the screen configuration, I suspect you are suffering from this bug. In short: Plank's returned values for the space it needs are not always correct in multi monitor setup.
A neat option to replace at least part of the functionality is Ulauncher, by default called from a shortcut, but you could trigger it from anything that is capable of running its command.
Since Ulauncher's window simply identifies in the window list, you can easily write a script to move it to the current mouse position.
In case you'd need any help in that, just leave a comment.
Not sure if you are also referring to quick access of the window list, but for that you could use the Window Previews applet, or even the Workspace Overview applet, so life without Plank is possible.
This is kind of silly, but the answer is eluding me and the issue is driving me a bit bonkers. Every now and then Excel decides to not let me use ' and " properly, forcing me to press another key before it appears. The thing is, the only solution I can ever find to this problem is changing the keyboard layout. For this very reason, I only have US English as a keyboard option and yet Excel still pulls this prank on me. It's also only Excel doing it, I can type totally normally in web browsers as well as Word.
Is it possible I accidentally hit some setting or something? Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Eventually it just sort of goes away, but it might be days before that happens, so I'm thinking there must be a button I'm bumping on accident that is toggling this setting.
Hello and thank you in advance,
I am wondering if there is a way to change the layout of my keyboard (software-wise).
The problem is that, on my laptop's keyboard, the Page Up and Page Down keys are combined with the Home and End keys respectively (i.e. to use Home, I have to use the command fn+PgUp/Home).
Is there a way for me to switch what my keyboard receives in Windows 8? If I press the PgUp/Home key I would like the Home command to be entered, and if I entered fn+PgUp/Home I would like the PgUp command to be entered.
I have tried googling for this using several different keywords, but haven't been able to find anything.
Any help is appreciated,
Zach
This is a duplicate question.
You can find an answer here:
https://superuser.com/questions/694465/remapping-a-keyboard-key-in-windows-8-1
Keep in mind this does require registry edits which can be dangerous and can lead to critical failures if not done correctly. Always create a restore point before making any registry edits.
This is more of a computer question than a programming question and it I am posting in the wrong place, please let me know. My system is running Windows 8, 64bit. Regardless of which browser I use - IE or Chrome, every time I attempt to type something into a text field, the screen refreshes. I have also noticed that the refresh symbol starts to flash. I can get that to stop by pressing the ESC key, but then the screen goes blank. I have done a complete scan of my computer and found no viruses. Any ideas would be great appreciated as this is making things very difficult, including typing this message.
I uninstalled and reinstalled and that seemed to fix the problem.