Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Troubles with keyboard layout name

Recently, I've been experimenting with a Macro Deck, a simple programmable "keyboard" that can utilize an old Android tablet I already have to solve some practical problems or needs.


Like, what keyboard I'm using right now ?

I'm Slovak, but as a programmer, I use the English (US) keyboard layout for coding and the Slovak QWERTY layout for the Slovak language. There's also the Slovak QWERTZ layout, which is the standard, and sometimes I use Czech or German layouts just for specific words usually.

So, which keyboard layout is active after I press Windows + Space? That's the question.

So I set up my tablet and Macro Deck, with that Windows + Space , and of course a was trying to set up a label for a Macro Deck "button" to show me name of keyboard layout. There si a way to use plugins, but there is no plug in suitable, or simply I was not able to find one, so there is command line. But no AI, I mean Copilot with GPT 5.1 or Gemini 3.0, was able to prepare functional PowerShell script. I tried many times. So c# it is ... Of course some debugging was needed to get proper label by binary date returned by system, but it works. But c# exe was somehow big so I created also c++ version which is significantly smaller.

So here it is 
https://github.com/gasparovicm/KeyboardName/

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Spotify - High Cpu Usage - Solved - partly

Simple problem. Spotify is just streaming music ... so CPU usage above 20% is quite high ...

Solution from spotify:

 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-Cpu-Usage-Solved/td-p/4567876

Does not work .

So ... simple investigation will show you that problem has a name "Home screen". Any other "screen" or page is just fine.

So open info about actual playlist or album, and CPU usage became acceptable.

And of course you can minimize Spotify, which is the easiest and best option .

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

I'm missing "Do you hear me?" confirmation feature

Everybody knows that , at the start of meeting we hear (every day, year by year ...)  phrase "Do You hear me ?" . 

So why there Is no feature which will automatically answer, by some signal, to that question ?

Speak recognition exist, various "thumb up" like signals also , so why there is no feature like that ?

Please Microsoft, Google, Zoom etc. ... We need "Do You hear me?" confirmation feature in yours products !