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Former Member
3 years ago

quick access shortcut only works from main window of application on Ubunutu 22.04

The quick access keyboard shortcut only works when the main 1Password application window is open and focused. When main window is unfocused or not open (but 1password is still running in tray), the k...
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lumarel
New Contributor
2 years ago

Hi everyone,
I took a bit of a look around if this can be worked around somehow.
Apparently this is a security feature of wayland to not allow global keyboard shortcuts because it's the same as keyboard sniffing.
Didn't find the issue/thread up to now where they are looking for a solution to that problem, but at least there are workarounds for GNOME and KDE,
GNOME, by setting a shortcut in the GNOME settings:

KDE, by adding a action identifier to the .desktop file, and then configuring the shortcut afterwards in KDEs settings:
ini
[Desktop Action QuickAccess]
Name=1Password Quick Access
Exec=1password --quick-access

Cheers lumarel!

https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/issues/309