BUG: Keyboard input for Flow hotkey gets blocked in Fullscreen

[MakiRollDev]

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Problem Description

I have my keybindings on CTRL + Shift + A

When I press these keys while in a fullscreen application/ game, the keys all ge blocked (as if the inputs are never made).

To Reproduce

1. Enable Ignore hotkeys in fullscreen mode
2. When pressing the hotkey combination, it gets completely blocked.

Screenshots

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Flow Launcher Version

1.16.2

Windows Build Number

22621.2861

Error Log

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[deefrawley]

Hi. If you enable Ignore hotkeys in fullscreen mode then Flow is behaving exactly as it should. if this is toggled OFF and this is still happening then there may be an issue

[MakiRollDev]

Okay, interesting, that seems kind of counterproductive. I would have assumed that flow would just ignore the inputs and let the other applications on the PC handle them.

[deefrawley]

Sorry? I am confused what the issue is. Flow shortcuts will get blocked in fullscreen if you have the Ignore shortucts in fullscreen setting enabled.

What is the issue?

[MakiRollDev]

Okay, sorry if I was unclear (English is not my first language)

When I press my hotkeys in a full screen application I would expect said application to receive those inputs as if flow wasn't running (in the game where I noticed: Ctrl(Crouch) + Shift(Sprint) +A(Walk left)) but instead the last key pressed doesn't go through.

So my character doesn't walk left.

It seems that flow still eats up the input even tho it doesn't react to it.

[deefrawley]

Ah I see now. And if you pause the game and exit out of Flow the keys start activating in the game?
Do you have any other keyboard listening apps running such as Powertoys, Autohotkey, Espanso etc.?

[MakiRollDev]

Yes, exiting flow fixes the issue. Powertoys was running, but i tried it without and it did not change anything.

[zeek-zag]

Same issue happens with Flow's game mode enabled. It's not freeing the shortcut and alt+space just stops working in other applications (Krita/SAI2 in my case).
Exiting the launcher frees the shortcut but it doesn't really fix the real issue :)

[VictoriousRaptor]

thomaslevesque/NHotkey#36

Looks like not possible with our hotkey lib.

[NoPlagiarism]

Should be keep-fresh, since this one depends on another issue in another repo

[danteasy]

Any updates?

[jjw24]

I am implementing a new hotkey library #3157, will resolve this as part of that work.