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JoyXoff

Integrate your keyboard and mouse in one place. · By Diego Ferracini

start menu double-input problem?

A topic by navi2 created Jul 11, 2021 Views: 836 Replies: 1
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Hi,

I've been enjoying JoyXoff and only have 1 issue with it. It's an issue not with joyxoff specifically as it also affects gopher360. Users of controller companion were talking about it in https://steamcommunity.com/app/367670/discussions/0/1736595227851102698/https://steamcommunity.com/app/367670/discussions/0/1736595227851102698/


When JoyXoff is closed, Windows still allows the start menu to be navigated after the start menu is opened. Moving the joystick in a direction makes a selection box appear and select the icon in that direction. For instance, clicking the start menu with a mouse and then moving the xbox controller joystick down twice would select the first item in the start menu. And moving it down again would cause the selection box to move to the second item in the start menu.

This is conflicting wiith JoyXoff's mouse functionality on my computer. For instance, when I use the right joystick to scroll through the start menu and then as soon as I move the left joystick to try and select something, focus moves to the top of the start menu to the first item that has a selection box over it.

Does anyone else experience this issue, and is there a plan to address it? I'm using windows 10 with an xbox series x controller and tried both usb and bluetooth connections and both can lead to the reproduction.

Seems controller companion was able to work around it (https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/367670/view/4499624084986955151) by somehow disabling windows 10's native controller start menu navigation function.


Edit:

I see the same behavior in the windows settings screens. If I have an item selected, I can move between items with the left joystick whether or not joyxoff is on via the selection box method that windows 10 has.

(+1)

There is a solution to this problem that can be enabled via regedit (https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/1495#issuecomment-75568625...) once users update to Windows 11.

The issue is that for UWP apps like the start menu, Windows has its own xinput control and it can be disabled for Windows builds 21286 and higher, which reaches customers via Windows 11.