Exporting keymap presets

When you apply keyboard layout emulation, all your keyboard shortcuts are effectively remapped.

This means that if you export your keymap as a preset while emulation is active, the exported preset will contain the layout emulation baked into it.

Note

This can be useful if you want to share your remapped keymap, or import it later after uninstalling this extension, to avoid relying on it.

However, if you import the preset and enable emulation, your preset will be then remapped by emulation a second time, which you probably don't want.

Your options on this matter are:

• Disable emulation before exporting the preset, if you want to use it with emulation, or share it with people who use other keyboard layouts.
• Export the preset with the emulation baked into it and then uninstall/disable this extension, if you don't want to rely on this extension afterwards.

Caveats

Unfortunately, using presets to emulate QWERTY shortcuts has some limitations:

• Keyboard shortcuts added by other add-ons may get reverted the next time you restart Blender. This is a known Blender issue.
• Even some built-in keyboard shortcuts (like node.duplicate_move) may alse get reverted the next time you restart Blender. This seems to be a bug in Blender's ability to compare the value of some keyboard shortcuts. For example, if you edit it in the UI, it may sometimes fail to detect when you have reverted it manually to its default value.

Tip

If you don't like the way this extension dynamically reapplies emulation every time you restart Blender, or after you install another add-on, you may disable these features in the extension's preferences, rather than disabling the extension altogether.