Hotkey doesn't work after waking from sleep

[Qard]

I've noticed that the hotkey seems to not work anymore after waking OSX from sleep. The other hotkeys in hyperterm for stuff like interacting with tabs still work, so I think it has something to do with how hyperterm-visor is setting up the hotkey bindings.

[ericclemmons]

I was wondering if I was the only one! Is this something fixable by the author or something we'd be able to test/fix in the community?

[CWSpear]

Is there a way you can more consistently reproduce this? I tried shutting my laptop for a while and opening it back up, and I also tried Apple Menu > Sleep, but the hotkey was working after both of those.

I have seen this very occasionally, so I do think something fishy is going on, but it doesn't appear to be triggered by sleep (or at least not by only going to sleep...).

Either way, finding a consistent cause will definitely help in debugging.

[philwade]

I've been seeing this about once a day during my work day, so far have been unable to figure out a consistent way to reproduce. Seems to happen after being idle as well.

I left open developer tools to try and catch something when it happens, no errors or anything 😞

[dieggsy]

I've noticed the same issue. I can't quite pinpoint what it is, but the hotkey definitely stops working for me every so often.

[dcalhoun]

From my experience, hyperterm-summon does not suffer from this issue. I know it utilizes hyperterm-register-shortcut (a library created by the same author).

It may be worth exploring using hyperterm-register-shortcut for hyperterm-visor or, at the very least, comparing the approaches used to bind the global shortcut.

Hope this helps some. 😊

[philwade]

it looks like hyperterm-register-shortcut uses the same mechanism, namely: const { globalShortcut } = require('electron');

Although it is called a little different: https://github.com/soutar/hyperterm-register-shortcut/blob/master/index.js#L10 vs https://github.com/CWSpear/hyperterm-visor/blob/master/visor.js#L34

[philwade]

Just to see if it will resolve the issues, I implemented hyperterm-register-shortcut on this branch: https://github.com/philwade/hyperterm-visor/tree/try-hyperterm-register-shortcut

It would still need cleanup to get released, but if some people experiencing this issue could test and see if it fixes things, that would be handy.

Note: This branch requires you to add a different config setting for the hotkey

config: {
    hotkeys: {
        hotkey: 'CommandOrControl+Z',
    }
}

[RTSchriner]

@philwade: Testing it now! I'll let you know if I continue to have issues. Thanks for your work! 👍

[RTSchriner]

@philwade: I haven't had any issues yet. Seems to be working.

[philwade]

@RTSchriner cool, I haven't either, going to test it out again for the rest of today and if everything looks good I'll clean it up and put together a PR

You were able to figure out the new config setting even though I failed to put it my original comment? 🙃

[RTSchriner]

@philwade Hmmmm... config setting!? 🙃 Haha If I did it was accidental.

Note: Your fix is still working great! Great work! 👍

[CWSpear]

Released on npm as v0.3.2.

Special thanks to @philwade for the fix and thanks to the rest of you for help testing and stuff!

[CWSpear]

The people in this thread has been especially helpful... think I could get your help with a non-sleep issue?

Need help testing the new anchor (replaces position) option in the forthcoming 1.0: https://github.com/CWSpear/hyperterm-visor/issues/5#issuecomment-295996253

[revelt]

I can confirm it is still happening (as has been since the beginning). The scenario is simple, after the day I drag the mouse to activate one of the hotcorners on my screen to put display to sleep. Next morning the visor's shortcut does not work any more, I have to restart Hyper, then all is ok again. Visor always works until I put display to sleep, after that Hyper's restart is needed.