Set global shortcuts

hbatalha

I need to set shortcut for my app that works even when it's hidden or minimized.
With this library I can get what I want but it uses Qt5 which is a deal breaker for me since my app is already written in Qt6 and going back will break a lot stuff. I tried QShortcut but it only works when the app is shown and active.

Is there a way to achieve this?

jsulm

@hbatalha Did you try to build this lib with Qt6?

hbatalha

@jsulm Yes I am still trying but I am getting some errors that I haven't got past yet and it got me wondering if could be a better solution for my prob.

mrjj

@hbatalha

Hi
But do you need it to be cross platform or just for a single platform ?

hbatalha

@mrjj single platform, linux only.

mrjj

@hbatalha

ok so you could focus on gettting
https://github.com/Skycoder42/QHotkey/blob/master/QHotkey/qhotkey_x11.cpp
to compile and just use that file/part.

(assuming you are using X11 and not wieland)

You might need to do
sudo apt install libx11-dev
(or similar on your concrete linux)

to get teh X11 .h files etc

hbatalha

@mrjj said in Set global shortcuts:

@hbatalha

ok so you could focus on gettting
https://github.com/Skycoder42/QHotkey/blob/master/QHotkey/qhotkey_x11.cpp
to compile and just use that file/part.

(assuming you are using X11 and not wieland)

You might need to do
sudo apt install libx11-dev
(or similar on your concrete linux)

to get teh X11 .h files etc

That's what I did: I took only the needed files (namely qhotkey_x11.cpp, qhotkey_p.h, qhotkey.h and qhotkey.cpp) but I get an error in qhotkey_x11.cpp file line 51 stating :

 error: field type '(anonymous namespace)::Q_QGS_hotkeyPrivate::Type' (aka 'QHotkeyPrivateX11') is an abstract class

I can't fix this.

The error refers to this line:

NATIVE_INSTANCE(QHotkeyPrivateX11)

Which is this macro in qhotkey_p.h in line 48.

I don't really understand this error.