After pressing hotkeys, have to click into specs list to regain focus for hotkeys

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Something I noticed with the test running hotkeys. If I press R or S, I have to left click the Specs area to regain focus for my hotkeys to work. Otherwise they seem to have no effect. So far it is happening on Chrome/Electron on Linux Mint 20.2

https://cypressio.slack.com/archives/C039JEKF9M0/p1649096347394789

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➤ Jennifer Shehane commented:

From Mark Noonan

This will happen any time the test has moved keyboard focus into the AUT to type or click, @Zach Williams ( https://cypressio.slack.com/team/U02BXNAU6P5 ) and I were talking about this earlier too. But maybe there’s another cause, I wonder if you have the same issue if you comment out the interaction in a test and just visit something?

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➤ Zach Williams commented:

This also occurs in 9.x

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➤ Mark Noonan commented:

Right, it is intended behavior that these events would not work from the context of the app under test, any keyboard events that take place in that context should be captured as input to the app under test, not Cypress.

It does make the idea of keyboard shortcuts in the spec runner page less effective. One improvement might be to move keyboard focus to the reporter panel after tests complete. Then hotkeys would work a bit more naturally at least, when tests aren’t running. Definitely there’s plenty to discuss around our hotkeys/shortcuts though.

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