Turning the keyboard HYPER key into an actual HYPER key

MNT Reform
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Hi everyone!

So, when I checked the manual and I saw the bottom left key was refereed to as Hyper I thought: “Yay! I don’t have to manually configure a Hyper key this time!”. Sadly, it really is just a Fn key, it interacts with the keyboard itself and gives no scancode.

I expected it to yield the Ctrl + Shift + Super + Alt scancodes since that’s how nowadays you make a pseudo hyper key (since the original Hyper key scancode is not really used or well understood by software nowadays). But sadly, it’s an Fn key, as far as I can tell.

So I wanted to know if there is some way of remapping this to something else without having to disassemble the keyboard off and re-flashing the firmware?
Maybe I could remap it to Right Control and remap the actual Right Control key to Caps Lock? Then I can use something like xremap to remap the new Right Control to yield Ctrl + Shift + Super + Alt. And I can set Caps Lock to act as Compose (so that it goes back to being Compose).

So, the config I am looking for is something like this:

:up_right_arrow: becomes RightCtrl configured to yield Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Super
… becomes CapsLock configured as Compose

I normally don’t set my Hyper to use Shift though.
I set it to Ctrl + Super + Alt since otherwise I can’t do Hyper + Right arrow to go to the end and also have Hyper + Right arrow + Shift to select all text until the end (Same for the other arrow keys).

If you could give me some tips on how to achieve the remapping (even if I need to flash the entire keyboard in the end) that would be great.
Thanks :heart: