I have a separate "gaming" layer on my keyboard. That way I disable all the autoshift, and other weird layouts/functionality I use for typing/coding. QMK and other keyboard firmwares are pretty powerful and feature rich. So there are plenty of ways to get around situation, including using a combo of key presses to toggle the autoshift functionality for instance.

Also, for context, minimizing finger and wrist movement is far more important for my use cases than typing speed is. To that end, I split my spacebar in half and put backspace and shift under my right thumb. I only use autoshift for my number row.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I imagined you'd need something like that. I might give the feature a try, I have a keyboard with Vial, a real time configurable fork of QMK.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Since acquiring this keyboard, I haven't played any games where I don't use a controller. But I imagine it won't work. I'd have to disable auto shift in those cases. And like the other comment said, there are several ways to work around it, like gaming layers, key combos to toggle auto shift, etc. 👍