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On X11 and Windows (except UWP apps probably?), yes. On Wayland, random apps can't listen to global keyboard events.

• berti 8y ago
  A number of people dislike Wayland because applications can't watch the screen, keyboard input, clipboard etc outside of their own window. Really, that's one of its great strengths over X11.
  • ShamelessC 8y ago
    I'm curious, how does an application such as OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com/ https://obsproject.com/) work with such limitations in place?
    • floatboth 8y ago
      Through some API that checks authorization. Eventually everyone should be using https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/data/org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast.xml https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/da... (which is based on https://pipewire.org https://pipewire.org ) For now, e.g. https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gnome-screencast https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gnome-screencast uses org.gnome.Shell.Screencast