Automating keyboard command


forneus

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Need an on-screen keyboard pop up automatically when I switch my input language (Ctrl+Shift). Is this a task for Power Automate (new to this tool)? Or can this combination (as hot keys) do two functions at once - switching my input language and opening on-screen keyboard?
 

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Regardless of how you decide to launch apps with a hotkey, you'll still need a wrapper script. Otherwise running On-Screen Keyboard makes no sense when you're switching back to your native input language.

This script assumes (for simplicity), there's only two possible input languages to switch from and picks the non-current language to switch. It checks if the new language isn't the native one, and only then runs On-Screen Keyboard.

SwitchInput.bat
Code: 
@echo off
powershell -nop -ep bypass -C ""$NormalLanguage = (Get-Culture).Name; ^
Set-WinUserLanguageList (Get-WinUserLanguageList)[1].LanguageTag, (Get-WinUserLanguageList)[0].LanguageTag -Force -WarningAction Ignore; ^
if ((Get-WinUserLanguageList)[0].LanguageTag -ne $NormalLanguage) { ^
    if ((Get-Process -Name "osk" -ErrorAction Ignore).Count -eq 0) { osk.exe } ^
}""
 

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