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How to listen to keyboard events in electron without interrupting default behavior?

I was trying to listen to Ctrl-C event using electron globalShortcut module, but as it seems, electron is re-writing default behavior automatically (without features like preventDefault in plain javascript).

Here's what I did:

app.whenReady().then(() => {
  const test: boolean = globalShortcut.register('CommandOrControl+C', () => {
    console.log('Test.')
  })

  /* ... */
})

Is there an another way to listen to global keyboard shortcut events using electron without interrupting their default behavior?

Solution

  • This seems to be Electron's expected behaviour

    You can use iohook to capture key presses instead of Electron's globalShortcut module