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February 6th, 2022 08:00
x17 R1, Keyboard Macro and other questions
Environment: x17 R1 / 1.5.0 Bios / i9 / 3080 / 64gb at 3467 Mhz RAM / 4Tb 2x NVMe m.2 drives / Win11.
Looking for possible answers to the following if possible on this Alienware laptop:
1) Create a keyboard shortcut to sleep the machine. On my last non-Alienware laptop there was a built-in sleep key combo which was quite useful but these x17 R1s do not seem to possess this feature.
2) Allow the keyboard to highlight each key as I press them (similar to how the Disable Microphone or MS Lock buttons work) - this has been a major luxury feature I really want to enable if possible.
3) During a long idle period or engaging sleep allow the keyboard to use something like the Knight Rider LED theme - right now I cannot find any option to change this in AWCC.
4) Unsure if this is possible as an even older laptop I owned had this keyboard combo built-in but: ability to turn off the main LED screen (not lock the laptop) but just fully blank the screen itself without actually locking it (normal activity still occurs in the background while screen is blank). I've tried various batch/cmd/ps scripts but they still lock the laptop when invoked.
Thank you community!
Thudmeizer
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February 7th, 2022 10:00
Still searching around but it seems that AWCC is missing some basic functionality to allow even intermediate keyboard colour FX functionality. I cannot even do something like:
When the screen is locked or the machine is idle for X mins switch the keyboard to do the Knight Rider sequence rather than the static colour it is set right now for normal operations. I find it highly odd for such a premium alienware laptop that even intermediate functionality for the keyboard or the Alien case LED icons around the case does not exisrt in AWCC to port out to the OS like my older MSI laptop had.
Thudmeizer
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February 8th, 2022 21:00
More investigating.. so it seems in AWCC you can assign a theme FX to a program but not for a basic OS function like LockScreen. I can assign a theme to, say, a CMD but if I lock the screen the theme goes back to the default so not helpful. Not sure why Alien FX is so incredibly basic after how many years of releases on various high end alienware laptops? Even your competitors have much better functionality for case and keyboard FX.
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February 12th, 2022 07:00
Still no resolution here - AWCC still requires a significant feature update for the X17s as I cannot even assign an Alien FX to the lock screen or going to sleep (seems for whatever reason its hard-coded to the keyboard side Alien Power LED). Also, unsure if there are additional downloadable Alien FX or the ability to create my own FX patterns/animations apart from then 5 pre-existing ones.