microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys

Keyboard Manager - stopped working on passwords fields

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Issue-Bug Needs-Triage Product-Keyboard Shortcut Manager
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Description

### Microsoft PowerToys version

0.98.1

### Installation method

WinGet

### Area(s) with issue?

Keyboard Manager

### Steps to reproduce

My keymap is: the sequence CTRL+` E

1. I focus on the password field (this is a third‑party application, so I cannot disclose its name here).
2. I press the sequence CTRL+` E.
3. Nothing happens.

### ✔️ Expected Behavior

Before the new Keyboard Manager editor, it worked with the third‑party application in its password field — it acted as a sequence of keystrokes.
Now it seems to behave more like CTRL+V, which the third‑party vendor blocks.

Please provide an option to map a sequence either to “pasting text” or to a “keystroke sequence” (to input text character by character).

### ❌ Actual Behavior

Nothing happens. The sequence does not trigger entering the target text. The password field remains empty.

### Upload Bug Report ZIP-file

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### Additional Information

Windows 11 Pro 25H2
Polish

### Other Software

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Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start in the Keyboard Manager implementation for mapped key sequences and reproduce the CTRL+` E behavior in a password field; done means sequences can be configured to emit keystrokes rather than paste text, with coverage for both behaviors.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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