Why keybinder works in Wayland using gtk2 but doesn't work using gtk3 gir bindings? about keybinder HOT 8 CLOSED

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• Use GApplication: https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GtkApplication
• Add your GAction: https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GAction
• Call it over dbus

But I think binding a hotkey to run a program may result in a noticeable delay

DBus IPC is technically slower yes but it isn't noteworthy.

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Because Gtk2 applications are ran in XWayland. env GDK_BACKEND=x11 would make a Gtk3 application run under XWayland too.

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Awesome. Now my app runs in Wayland

Thanks a lot @TingPing

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Just to state the obvious, forcing using X11 is of course not ideal.

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Yeah, you are right.
However there is no way to programmatically bind a hotkey in Wayland, is there?

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No. One one of doing it is exposing an action in your application and then the user can configure their compositor to call that action by keypress.

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Like a dbus method?
Could you please share a link where I can read more about how to do that the right way?

After discovering that there is no way of binding a hotkey using API I thought of making an executable that would call a dbus method of my app. But I think binding a hotkey to run a program may result in a noticeable delay 🤔

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Thanks :)

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