{"id":18983,"date":"2022-02-26T13:52:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T12:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=18983"},"modified":"2022-12-10T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:30:45","slug":"logitech-disable-overlay-on-num-lock-caps-lock-overlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/18983\/logitech-disable-overlay-on-num-lock-caps-lock-overlay\/","title":{"rendered":"Logitech: Disable overlay on Num-Lock, Caps-Lock overlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disable annoying overlay when enabling and disabling special keys in Logitech Options.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I like my <a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/7789\/review-logitech-mx-anywhere-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Logitech mouse<\/a>, however the software needed one annoying thing with it, whenever I pressed one of the lock buttons a pop up would come up that it was now on or off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l8Nyul9Q7Uo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is especially annoying when working with virtual machines and constantly switching back and forth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18976\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_1.jpg 431w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, you can also make this setting in the Logitech Options, but only if you have a Logitech keyboard. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have one on my notebook.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative is to use the settings file. First we open the directory with the settings. To do this, we press WIN + R and then enter the following line:<\/p>\n<pre>%appdata%\\Logishrd\\LogiOptions\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18978\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_2.png 399w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_2-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the explorer we find the file &#8220;options.<a title=\"How to deserialize XML value to boolean\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi.de\/en\/index.php\/4660\/c-how-to-convert-xml-to-boolean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xml<\/a>&#8220;, we edit it with a text editor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18980\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_3.png 968w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_3-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_3-768x475.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The setting is the following:<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;useroption name=\"showLockNotifications\" value=\"0\" \/&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>We have to set this from 1 to 0. Then we restart the computer, the overlay is deactivated. If you miss it at some point, you can reactivate it in this way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18982\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_4.png 596w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logi_overlay_4-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disable annoying overlay when enabling and disabling special keys in Logitech Options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}