Window Capture

Capture will work with most apps, but has limitations.

Capture

On apps using older frameworks, dialog boxes and drop-down menus may not be shown.

Cursor

While OpenKneeboard’s own cursor will move, it will not move the Windows mouse cursor, as Windows only supports mouse interaction with the active window.

Mouse/tablet forwarding

If mouse/tablet forwarding does not work for you with a specific app, it is simply incompatible. There is no configuration, no troubleshooting, or anything else you can do to fix it, unless you are the app developer, and familiar with Win32 and your framework.

Apps, frameworks, and Windows itself try very hard to make it so mouse movement only affects active window; sometimes, despite OpenKneeboards’ best efforts, they succeed.

These issues are very time consuming, and there are too many apps/frameworks for me to investigate them. There is no need to ask, or to open bug reports/feature requests.

Specific apps with compatibility issues

  • Windows Calculator (UWP)
  • Map drag-and-drop in LittleNavMap
  • DCSTheWay