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by aidenn0 166 days ago
It can absolutely be like that. Global keyboard shortcuts not working is a deliberate design choice in Wayland (as is non-foreground apps not having access to the clipboard).
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tigrezno 165 days ago
Gnome is bringing global shortcuts AFAIK in the next stable version
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akka47 165 days ago
Yeah but now everything's platform-specific. We'll have a KDE version, a Gnome version, a wlroots version, ...
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aidenn0 165 days ago
I bet dollars-to-donuts it won't work with X11 apps
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jcgl 164 days ago
I can’t speak to the GNOME side of things, but I’ve been enjoying global shortcuts on KDE Wayland for years now. No issues to report whatsoever.
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bigyabai 165 days ago
There's no reason it couldn't.
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aidenn0 162 days ago
Yes there is; Xwayland won't support it.
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bigyabai 162 days ago
So what? Xwayland doesn't support file selectors, but XDG has a portal that handles it fine.
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