Global Keybind Passthrough does not function if the app is not visible

[officialnochill]

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Regression?

Probably not a regression / I don't remember it happening before

System Info and Hyprland Version

Hyprland 0.46.2 built from branch at commit 0bd541f (version: bump to 0.46.2).
Date: Thu Dec 19 19:26:47 2024
Tag: v0.46.2, commits: 5566
built against:
aquamarine 0.7.0
hyprlang 0.6.0
hyprutils 0.3.3
hyprcursor 0.1.11
hyprgraphics 0.1.1

flags set:
debug

System Information:
System name: Linux
Node name: nochill-pc
Release: 6.12.9-arch1-1
Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:39:41 +0000

GPU information:
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] [1002:73df] (rev c5) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

os-release: NAME="Arch Linux"
PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux"
ID=arch
BUILD_ID=rolling
ANSI_COLOR="38;2;23;147;209"
HOME_URL="https://archlinux.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.archlinux.org/groups/archlinux/-/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/privacy-policy/"
LOGO=archlinux-logo

plugins:

Description

Global Keybind Passthrough does not function if the app is not visible
For example, if my OBS window is not a visible window in any of my workspaces (but still running in the background) then
bind = $mainMod, F19, pass , class:^(com.obsproject.Studio)$
does not work at all.

How to reproduce

Set up keybind passthrough (bind = $mainMod, F19, pass , class:^(com.obsproject.Studio)$)

Launch OBS, move to another workspace to verify that the passthrough works.

Minimise OBS to taskbar/waybar by clicking its icon, verify that obs is still running by using the rightclick context menu

Try pressing the keybind again, it will not work.

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Checklist of files to include below

• Hyprland config - hyprctl systeminfo -c (always include)
• Crash report (always include in case of crash)
• Video (always include in case of a visual bug)
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Additional info & File uploads

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[vaxerski]

wdym "minimize"? There is no such thing in hyprland.

[officialnochill]

Not sure what the correct term would be, but the window being closed to system tray

[Ghosthree3]

I believe this feature is a hack that sends, or sends a copy, of the key to the named window, so it would make sense that if the window "doesn't exist" that it can't forward the key press.
To get what you're talking about to work you'd need to use, and have OBS support, the DBus Global Shortcuts protocol, https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Binds/#dbus-global-shortcuts
If you want to use the pass feature, you should just shove OBS onto some unused workspace.

[officialnochill]

Attempting that appears to give me an "unknown request" error