paoloose / urn

Split tracker / timer with GTK+ frontend. *nix alternative to LiveSplit. This is teh urn.
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Alternative to global hotkeys for Wayland users #19

Open paoloose opened 8 months ago

paoloose commented 8 months ago

Urn should support an alternative to global hotkeys for Wayland, like having command line flags to communicate via IPC with already running Urn timer instances.

Derived from issue https://github.com/paoloose/urn/issues/9 and comment https://github.com/paoloose/urn/issues/9#issuecomment-1915295479

The way to do global hotkeys in Wayland is … not to do global hotkeys. Instead, have command line options for the stuff you would usually hotkey; e.g. urn --start for starting the timer of an already running application instance. That can then be assigned as a “global hotkey” through the window manager / desktop environment.