Use a Surface Slim Pen 2 as a Slidev Clicker

The Surface Slim Pen 2 can work as a tiny Slidev clicker. The trick is not to make Slidev understand a pen. It is to make the pen emit the same keyboard actions Slidev already understands: single click -> Right Arrow or Space -> next animation or slide double click -> Left Arrow -> previous animation or slide long press -> F -> fullscreen That is the whole setup. The annoying part is that the Slim Pen 2 is not a presentation remote by default. Windows treats the top button as a Bluetooth shortcut button for Windows Ink-style actions, while Slidev listens for keyboard navigation. So you need a small remap layer between the two. ...

June 4, 2026 · 6 min · 1164 words · Pavel Nasovich