Wayland - Hotkeys are broken in multiple ways

[Gambloide]

I wanted to set up some hotkeys to control some basic functions like muting/unmuting and switching scenes without the need for plugins, but stumbled across some severe limitations. I can also create separate tickets for these issues if preferred. But I assume the hotkey feature working as intended might ultimately be prevented by limitations of Wayland and underlying compositors anyway.

1. Issue: Configured hotkeys are not set in the input fields under Settings > Hotkeys. The input fields always stay empty: Steps to reproduce: Set a hotkey for a function. Expected behavior: The set hotkey is shown in the input field next to the function to be called. Actual behavior: The input field stays empty.
2. Issue: Only modifier keys and combinations of modifier keys can be set as hotkeys. Any other keys are ignored. Steps to reproduce: Try to set a hotkey to any non modifier key Expected behavior: A hotkey is set. Actual behavior: No hotkey is set.
3. Issue: Hotkeys only work when OBS has focus. Steps to reproduce: Set up a working hotkey and try to trigger it when OBS is not the focused application. Expected behavior: The function bound to the hotkey is triggered. Actual behavior: The function bound to the hotkey is not triggered.

I am using the flathub beta branch on Fedora 33 with Gnome-shell/mutter.

$ flatpak info com.obsproject.Studio

OBS Studio - Live streaming and video recording software

          ID: com.obsproject.Studio
         Ref: app/com.obsproject.Studio/x86_64/beta
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: beta
     Version: 26.1.0
     License: GPL-2.0
      Origin: flathub-beta
  Collection: org.flathub.Beta
Installation: user
   Installed: 54,2 MB
     Runtime: org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15
         Sdk: org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15

      Commit: 551fea42738de780b8d02d4a558a6509357976300adfcaccf908c9b9caca17aa
      Parent: f4562a2d441c2fe075cb874e56d89e8500e9c6a6013ede7c2e6e7340264c5b0b
     Subject: Add Wayland and X11 sockets (af9fda90)
        Date: 2020-12-28 19:30:59 +0000

[GeorgesStavracas]

There is no accepted protocol for global hotkeys yet, this is not an OBS Studio issue. And old proposal recently resurfaced, but it's still under discussion.

[Gambloide]

Thank you for the link to the proposal. 👍

Though the only the third of the three issues I wrote about are actually related to this as far as I understand.

Shouldn't we still be able to:

• set hotkeys with more than modifier keys and
• see which hotkeys are configured

regardless of their global applicability?

They could still be used inside OBS Studio when it has focus.