Hotkey issue (doesn't work on startup, occasionally forgets an instance is open)

[kierenj]

Hi - from a fresh reboot on Windows 10, hitting my hotkey does nothing - until I manually start Hyper for the first time. Is that expected? (Not a biggie, just checking if that is intended or not).

This morning I've come back to my laptop and when I hit the hotkey, an additional Hyper opens at the top of the screen. The original one isn't affected by the hotkey.

[zfwf]

Hi @kierenj the behaviour on reboot is expected I think. The hotkey is registered in hyperterm-overlay plugin when hyper starts. You can add an MS Windows startup shortcut to hyper and set the startup: false in hyper config to have the overlay window closed until the shortcut key or the tray icon is used to bring it to view.

I've not encountered the 2nd instance on ubuntu but then again I haven't really made the overlay my daily driver yet. I suggest using the Get-Process | select name, starttime in powershell and filter on hyper the next time you see the second instance to see if it indeed forgot and created a second instance.

[simonhaenisch]

I have the issue (on macOS) that the hotkey (alt+space) doesn't work when I wake my computer up from sleep. I need to re-start hyper to make it work again. Anyone else?

Edit: actually it's not because of the hibernation, but also just happens after some time.

[alexisvincent]

I get the same as @simonhaenisch. Any workaround? Other then quitting the app?

[simonhaenisch]

A workaround for me is to switch to Hyper (e. g. with alt+tab app switcher), then in the menu bar use "Show/Hide Overlay" under "Plugins". Afterwards the hotkey works again. But I ended up switching back to iTerm because it just didn't work reliably enough.