When sublayer key "o" (for opening apps) is changed to "a", then j,k,l keys do not launch apps or webs.

strangely only those j,k,l keys are not working, and only if sublayer is changed to "a".
if sublayer is "s", "o" etc then they work for launching apps.

I found that if I press it really fast sometimes j,k,l or ; commands work under sublayer a.
On any other sublayer apart from a, those j,k,l and ; , command work perfectly fine.

Tried changing these:

to_if_alone_timeout_milliseconds:
to_if_held_down_threshold_milliseconds:
to_delayed_action_delay_milliseconds:
simultaneous_threshold_milliseconds:

and as a non-dev tried debugging with claude and gpt, but with no success.

Maybe somebody else has the same issue/annoyance with sublayer a and j,k,l, and maybe even solved it?

[yashcrest]

what apps have you mapped the keys j,k,l to open on the sublayer a ?

Have you mapped the keys j,k,l in here to open any particular application ?

Since my post I found that this is limitation of apple keyboards (thanks apple), and some commands on some macs, particularly if hyper+layer+command key is in the same line (like capslock+a+j,k,l,; is) can cause issue from HW side.

[yashcrest]

interesting..

@yashcrest give it a try this config https://github.com/maxnyby/karabiner using sticky layer helped with my j,k,l, semicolon issue.
It has other modifications too.

Thanks so much @mxstbr for inspiring so many of such creations.