Macropad/keybinds not working with app active
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Macropad/keybinds not working with app active
jbundles|9/12/2025
Dune: AwakeningWhen i have Dune and the companion app open, i am not able to use my macropad with keybinds assigned to F13, F14, and F15 (i have not tried rebinding them to other F-keys, but as a note, Via/Vial will allow you to bind to F13 through F24, atleast for this specific .json


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Is this still an issue in the latest version 2.4.0?
In the last app version (2.5.3) I am unable to use thumb mouse buttons at all, game doesn't see them even in the keybind menu. I close THGL app and everything works. (yes, even if I close dupe "controller" window, keys are still blocked - "overlay" part is still working and I need to close whole app to get my keys back) Also steam keybind (shift+tab) is not working. Not that I need it, but this might help you to discover problem source 🙂 Bug appeared about 2 days ago, probably in version 2.4
What mouse do you have? Are you using any software such as G Hub to rebind the keys? Perhaps logs would help as well: www.th.gl/faq/companion-log-files
I got Logitech mx anywhere (tested MX2 and MX3 — same bug) Not using anything to re-bind, plain buttons. I checked that the game can see this buttons as thumb/thumb2 when overlay part is not running and stops when I turn it on. (Also please note my remark about steam hotkey Shift+Tab — it is not working either). I tried to just bind keyboard buttons E/F to mouse and checked that it works system-wide — nothing changed, when overlay is turned on, clicks are completely invisible to the game. Seems like they are being caught by overlay and not transferred anywhere after that. I think that the easiest way (for me) would be to be able to completely turn off any hotkeys handling in the app — just mouse interaction when controls is on and no interaction when they are turned off (just "click the eye"). This will fix any problems for those who have it and others will not toggle this switch. I will get logs tomorrow (my timezone is GMT+5), hope they will help 🙂
Sorry i didnt see this. so far ok, its working about 80% of the time now, but that was about where it was running just the game without the companion app (for whatever reason dune really hates these keybinds too) - thank you! tested both in and out of peer link, fwiw
Some more bugs: — Mouse pointer is visible when it is not needed for the game (no opened interface) when overlay controls are hidden. — Overlay does not dissapear when the mouse is moving over it (controls are still hidden) — When I turn controls on (F9) mouse dissapears completely. I will send logs now, but probably you will find nothing interesting in it 🙁 Also I will make a recording and upload it to YouTube soon.
This is the last log (I started with almost all keybiniding disabled - this left from my yesterday's experiments)
Here is my video (4 minutes or so): youtube.com/live/QhEkdOOtCf8?feature=share There is no first bug (unneeded mouse pointer, it happens not every time), but there is second (overlay ignores mouse, it does not disappear and do not let me click the eye or anything at all) and third (mouse just stops moving when I press F9 - seems like overlay is taking focus. Also it resumes to move when i press left button, didn't try this before).
I will add support for F13-F24
This could be related to the privileges mode of the app. You can try to run your mouse software as admin too.
Please check, if you are running the game in borderless (fullscreen windowed) mode
Yes, it was fullscreen windowed. This is strange, but apparently it had something to do with unknown (yet) game option. I tried everything I could and nothing helped, but when I just hit "reset everything to default" in game, everything was fixed instantly! (before that mouse was positioned under th.gl app menus, so they were not interactable, for example). I still don't know what caused this bug. When I have some more time, I am going to change every available in-game option and tell you if I could make it not working again 🙂 But for the time being - problem is solved, thank you!
GG @Dreid, you just advanced to level 1!