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Bug: v2.6.2 breaks the global hotkey

Open Victor239 opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug I use the global hotkey constantly, when upgrading to v2.6.2 it no longer works. Downgrading to v2.6.1 has it working again.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Upgrade to v2.6.2
  2. Try to use the same global hotkey

Expected behavior Toggle/hide Heynote

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Kubuntu 25.04
  • Version: v2.6.2 AppImage

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Victor239 avatar Oct 25 '25 09:10 Victor239

Ouch. The global hotkey functionality implemented in Electron seems to be a mess on Linux (https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/42573). Heynote 2.6.2 upgrades to the latest version of Electron and it contains a fix for a bug that makes the program unusable on the latest version of Mac OS - so unfortunately downgrading Electron is not really an option.

I'd love to be able to fix it but at the moment I don't know how, so it could be that you need to use an external program to set up a global hotkey for Heynote :(. Or use an older Heynote version :/.

heyman avatar Oct 25 '25 11:10 heyman