Global Hotkeys

[jmariondev]

Wayland's input model causes issues with programs that attempt to provide global hotkeys (key bindings that work when the application is not in-focus). Notable examples include push-to-talk keys (Mumble, Discord, etc.) and start/stop record/stream in OBS.

There is a proposed xdg portal to address this: flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#624 / flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#711 (merged! 🎉)
GNOME Tracking Bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2838 (+ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/issues/47 )

Mumble: mumble-voip/mumble#5257
OBS: obsproject/obs-studio#4992 (closed as WONTFIX)

[soredake]

Related:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/73
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/56

[fufexan]

Global hotkeys and PTT work in Hyprland:
https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Advanced-config/#global-keybinds

[jackharro]

Global hotkeys and PTT work in Hyprland:
https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Advanced-config/#global-keybinds

Link is dead, by a glance this seems to be a close fit: https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Binds/