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This is a rough draft, and I'm looking for feedback on the high-level shape of it. Most important is that I added another type...
  • @arcidalex@lemmy.world
    6•23 days ago

    Xorg global shortcuts will work for anything using Xwayland, but not in anything thats wayland native

    For example, in a game (using wine, which uses Xorg by default currently) your global shortcut will work. But in a wayland native window like Firefox, it will not if its the active window

    • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
      0•23 days ago

      oh i get it now. thats why i thought we already had it, im not usually aware of what is running under xwayland and what is not.

    • LeafletOPEnglish
      3•23 days ago

      Are you sure about that? KDE has a feature that lets Xwayland apps snoop if certain keys are pressed, but Gnome does not.

      • @arcidalex@lemmy.world
        3•23 days ago

        Yeah. The behavior i stated was how it works in Gnome. In KDE since Xorg passthrough is a formal thing, the behavior is different based on those options