<![CDATA[QShortcut and fullscreen QWidget issue]]>I have a QMainWindow with multiple QDockWidgets. Those dock widgets hold different QWidget based classes in them. For the sake of context: One of the docks contains a text editor widget. The text editor obviously uses keyboard input to modify the text content. However, that widget also uses QShortcuts to toggle the visibility of the search bar (Ctrl+F) and similar.

What I am trying to add to my application is a QShortcut that allows the user making the currently focused QDockWidget become fullscreen temporarily. I added a new QShortcut and the corresponding slot-code to the QMainWindow class. So far everything works great: Pressing the key combination Ctrl+Alt+F will make the dock become fullscreen, pressing it again will put it back where it was before.
However, my problem is that once the dock became fullscreen and I start clicking and typing around in the dock's widget (eg. that text editor), the key combination to make the dock leave the fullscreen mode no longer works.

Does anybody have an idea what the issue is? The QShortcut in the QMainWindow has been configured to use Qt::ApplicationShortcut so I don't believe that it's a focus problem - yet the slot simply never gets called.

QShortcut* shortcutToggleFullscreenCurrentDock = new QShortcut(this);
shortcutToggleFullscreenCurrentDock->setContext(Qt::ApplicationShortcut);
shortcutToggleFullscreenCurrentDock->setKey(ShortcutSequences::fullscreenCurrentDock());
connect(shortcutToggleFullscreenCurrentDock, &QShortcut::activated, this, &MainWindow::dockToggleShowFullscreen);

I'd be thankful for any kind of hint/tipp.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/73008/qshortcut-and-fullscreen-qwidget-issueRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 15:52:26 GMTFri, 04 Nov 2016 10:15:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to QShortcut and fullscreen QWidget issue on Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:03:14 GMT]]>@raven-worx said in QShortcut and fullscreen QWidget issue:

try also (additionally) to connect to the activatedAmbiguously() signal

That appears to be the trick! I haven't tested it with all the possible corner cases but so far it appears to be working nicely! Thank you very much for your help.

@m.sue said in QShortcut and fullscreen QWidget issue:

I assume a text editor (that has the focus) thinks that all keyboard events (like pressing character keys or CTRL-C, CTRL-V) are meant for it and swallows them. It does not delegate them to the parent widget.

That is correct - but what do I have to do in order to still set up a truly application wide shortcut?
I would have assume that shortcuts that the text editor doesn't know (eg. ALT + CTRL + F in my case) will simply be ignored and thus forwarded to the parent.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/357935https://forum.qt.io/post/357935Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:03:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QShortcut and fullscreen QWidget issue on Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:37:34 GMT]]>Hi,
I assume a text editor (that has the focus) thinks that all keyboard events (like pressing character keys or CTRL-C, CTRL-V) are meant for it and swallows them. It does not delegate them to the parent widget.
-Michael.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/357933https://forum.qt.io/post/357933Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:37:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QShortcut and fullscreen QWidget issue on Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:27:57 GMT]]>@Joel-Bodenmann said in QShortcut and fullscreen QWidget issue:

connect(shortcutToggleFullscreenCurrentDock, &QShortcut::activated, this, &MainWindow::dockToggleShowFullscreen);

try also (additionally) to connect to the activatedAmbiguously() signal

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