Hotkey Mode

Which action opens the menu, and when. Choose a mode from the leftmost button in Hotkey settings.

Mode	PressHoldingReleaseNext input	Trigger condition
Press		As soon as you press ※
Hold	Time	Reach the Hold timeout
Tweak	Distance · direction	Exceed the drag threshold Detected by PME
Double Click		Press again within the time limit
Key Chords		Press the Chord key within the timeout
Click		Release without dragging
Click Drag	Distance · direction	Exceed the drag threshold Detected by Blender on the native route

Tweak / Click Drag support Any and eight directions.

Combine multiple modes on one key

Press → PME waits

Tap and release↓

Press

Drag↓

Tweak

Keep holding↓

Hold

Example: Press, Hold, and Tweak Pie Menus assigned to the same Keymap, key, and modifiers.

In this example, even Press waits instead of opening immediately. PME waits and routes the input to the first action that qualifies. Double Click and Key Chords can also share the same key.

Click cannot trigger if Press, Hold, or Tweak handles the input. To separate a short press from a drag using Blender’s detection, combine Click with Click Drag.

Outside Context Router, PME may invoke Click Drag from Press assigned to the same Keymap, key, and modifiers. This route bypasses Blender’s drag detection and Direction setting. Context Router does not include Click Drag in its routing.

To show Click / Click Drag: enable Settings > Hotkeys > Native Click / Click Drag.

Release only means letting go. Click also requires that you have not dragged. Release is not a PME mode.

See Hotkey settings for assigning modes, and Settings > Hotkeys for timeouts and drag thresholds.