Global quick capture shortcut doesn't work on Wayland / Hyprland

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Hello. On Wayland / Hyprland, the global quick capture shortcut doesn’t seem to work. I have it set to Meta+Shift+KeyE in both settings as well as config.json. I was able to get the dialog to show sometimes in the past (seemed like it would not work if the browser was being focused). I think that was before the move to appimage for linux? Can’t get it to work now on both the stable and early access appimages.

Sort of a minor issue, but if you do decide to work on it, Omarchy might be the quickest way to get a Hyprland setup running for testing.

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Could this be a conflict with another shortcut? Have you tried other combinations?

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Hmm I did try other complex combinations like Control+Alt+Shift+Meta+KeyE which still don’t work. If I set that key combination to something like showing the help dialog, it works.

I don’t think it’s conflicting with an existing shortcut since if you try to use a keybind that conflicts with Hyprland, Hyprland will take precedence even if Everdo is in focus. Hyprland allows listing set keybinds using hyprctl binds and can be filtered with grep. When checking, there isn’t anything using those specific keybinds and I don’t think there’s anything else on my system listening for keybinds (when no app is in focus).

I even took one keybind reserved for hyprland and unset it. It can be used for any other keybind but not for the capture dialog.

Hyprland has the command hyprctl globalshortcuts documented here to see global shortcuts registered through the xdg portal and here’s the output for it. All of these are shortcuts I had tried for the app.

surface-transient:Command+W -> Electron shortcut Command+W
surface-transient:Command+Shift+W -> Electron shortcut Command+Shift+W
surface-transient:Ctrl+E -> Electron shortcut Ctrl+E
surface-transient:Ctrl+Shift+E -> Electron shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E
surface-transient:Command+Shift+E -> Electron shortcut Command+Shift+E
surface-transient:Command+N -> Electron shortcut Command+N
surface-transient:Alt+Command+Shift+E -> Electron shortcut Alt+Command+Shift+E
surface-transient:Alt+Command+H -> Electron shortcut Alt+Command+H
surface-transient:Command+Shift+H -> Electron shortcut Command+Shift+H
surface-transient:Ctrl+Shift+H -> Electron shortcut Ctrl+Shift+H

Seems Command here refers to the meta key (confirmed by adding new bind in the app, saving and running the previous command to see the new bind).