All other keys are masked while shotcut key is held under X11 about qhotkey HOT 3 OPEN

Thats unfortunate. I will mark this issue as out of scope for now, but if someone wants to give it a try, feel free to do so. However, I would prefer to not add any extra non standard libraries or testing libraries to the project.

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This is definitly a valid issue, but at this point I have no clue why this happens. It's probably simply how X handles key events - but further investigation would be needed to figure this one out. I currently don't have much freetime to work on such deep problems, so if you want to, feel free to further investigate this.

My first ideas on what is happening:

• X is just eating the keys, nothing we can do
• while being pressed, all key events are redirected to the grabbing application by design - this would need more event logging prove
• It's some kind of misconfiguration and can be fixed by using the APIs differently

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It looks like it is just how XGrabKey behaves: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15270420/why-xgrabkey-generates-extra-focus-out-and-focus-in-events

XRecord seems to offer an alternative that doesn't grab focus, but it then reports all keys and has you filter them rather than you registering a hotkey with it. https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libXtst/recordlib.html#enable_context

For example, this is done in libuiohook here: https://github.com/kwhat/libuiohook/blob/1.1/src/x11/input_hook.c#L857

Looks like it would be a pretty major change to resolve, unfortunately.

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