I have a Preonic keyboard running QMK[1] and have a dedicated MIDI layer so I can still use it as a regular keyboard if I want to. I then use dannywarren/AutoHotkey-Midi[2] to listen for hotkeys.
This has been way more reliable for me than listening for trying to use hotkeys like Ctrl-Alt-F13 or things like that, as they'll never conflict with something I might be in the process of typing. The only catch with that is if you want to use AHK to send keystrokes to a process running in elevated access, you'd need to start your AHK script as Administrator. That hasn't had an impact on me, though.
I have a Preonic keyboard running QMK[1] and have a dedicated MIDI layer so I can still use it as a regular keyboard if I want to. I then use dannywarren/AutoHotkey-Midi[2] to listen for hotkeys.
This has been way more reliable for me than listening for trying to use hotkeys like Ctrl-Alt-F13 or things like that, as they'll never conflict with something I might be in the process of typing. The only catch with that is if you want to use AHK to send keystrokes to a process running in elevated access, you'd need to start your AHK script as Administrator. That hasn't had an impact on me, though.
[1] https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_midi
[2] https://github.com/dannywarren/AutoHotkey-Midi