global shortcuts? ie from outside Chrome

[benblo]

Can your extension create global shortcuts, that can be called from outside of Chrome / anywhere in the OS?

Chrome has a dumb restriction that we can't use ctrl+alt because "Key combinations that involve Ctrl+Alt are not permitted in order to avoid conflicts with the AltGr key", which seems arbitrary because ctrl+alt works fine on Windows, even OS-wide (I use it a lot). Your extension does support ctrl+alt shortcuts from inside of Chrome, but there's no "In Chrome / Global" dropdown like in the builtin shortcuts editor (chrome://extensions/shortcuts)... I'm guessing extensions don't have access to that API, but just in case it could be done, it would be neat!

I found another (old) extension that apparently was made just for that, but has the same restriction.