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Electron Fiddle Gist
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Global shortcut behavior disrepancy</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>NOTE</h1>
<p>Devtools is forcibly detached to ensure consistent reproduction of the issue</p>
<h2>Instructions</h2>
<ol>
<li>Focus a window besides the renderer</li>
<li>Use the <code>globalShortcut</code> <kbd>Ctrl+Shift+Z</kbd> to focus the renderer</li>
<li>Release the <kbd>Z</kbd> key and observe the logged keys under the devTools console</li>
</ol>
The logged key will be <code>Z</code> on Windows, but no keyup event will occur on macOS or Linux until <kbd>Shift</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> is lifted.
<script>
// You can also require other files to run in this process
require('./renderer.js')
</script>
</body>
</html>
// Modules to control application life and create native browser window
const {app, BrowserWindow, globalShortcut} = require('electron')
// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let mainWindow
function createWindow () {
// Create the browser window.
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true,
contextIsolation: false,
}
})
globalShortcut.register('Ctrl+Shift+Z', () => {
mainWindow.focus();
mainWindow.webContents.send('global-shortcut');
});
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadFile('index.html')
mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools({ mode: 'detach' });
// Open the DevTools.
// mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools()
// Emitted when the window is closed.
mainWindow.on('closed', function () {
// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
// when you should delete the corresponding element.
mainWindow = null
})
}
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow)
// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
// On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
// to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
app.on('activate', function () {
// On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
if (mainWindow === null) {
createWindow()
}
})
// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.
// This file is required by the index.html file and will
// be executed in the renderer process for that window.
// All of the Node.js APIs are available in this process.
const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron');
window.addEventListener('keyup', evt => {
console.warn(evt.key)
})
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