HotMon - Global Hotkey Monitor Tool (windows)

Ever wondered why your favorite shortcut isn’t working, or which app is hijacking your hotkeys? HotMon gives you instant answers.

HotMon is a lightweight, command-line tool designed to help power users, developers, and IT professionals monitor and troubleshoot global hotkey usage on Windows.

Features

• Detect all modifier-based combos (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Win)
• Live logging of hotkeys + foreground app
• Export logs to CSV
• Probe system-wide hotkey availability
• Command-line friendly (with aliases)

Usage

HotMon.exe [flags]

Flags

Flag	Alias	Description
--probe	-p	Probe available hotkeys and store
--search	-f	Search hotkey combo
--live-log	-l, -i	Start live or Interactive monitor
--help	-h	Show this help message

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Hotkey Controls (While in '--live-log')

• Press Ctrl + F10 → Save log as hotkey_log.csv
• Press Ctrl + F11 → Probe hotkeys and auto-save to hotkey_available.csv
• Press ESC → Exit

Output Files

• hotkey_log.csv: Records [timestamp, hotkey, application]
• hotkey_available.csv: Records [hotkey, availability status]

Build Instructions

Use Visual Studio (with Desktop C++ workload) or:

g++ HotMon.cpp -o HotMon.exe -luser32 -lpsapi

License

HotMon is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the LICENSE file for details.