electron-global-key-listener

[sancarn]

Might be useful to add an electron specific global key listener. This package would have the following advantages:

• Fallback to electron::globalShortcut() for registering keyboard shortcuts, if node-global-key-listener doesn't have permission.
• A utility to allow continued usage of node-global-key-listener when packaged into an asar package.

[Metainy]

Is there any plans to follow through on that?

Currently I am using Vue CLI Plugin Electron Builder
Node v15.x.x ~ v16.13.1
Electron v13

It works in development with externals: ["node-global-key-listener"] added in Webpack configuration but I get error code -4058 when packaged. Same exact behavior on a packaged node app using nexe or pkg.

[AnEmortalKid]

In my case, the winKeyServer wasn't being found so I had to use this path in both prod/dev:

serverPath: path.join(__dirname, "../../node_modules/node-global-key-listener/bin/WinKeyServer.exe")

Since as far as I can tell, with the later electrons, the executable runs from:

resources
  app
    .webpack
      main
    node_modules

[TarVK]

I wouldn't be surprised if the main entry that is run from a packaged electron app depends on what tool you use for packaging the app. So it may be impossible to give a single path that works for everyone.
I however don't know enough about this myself, but if this is indeed the case, it would be useful to start keeping track of these different paths and add such configurations for specific packagers in the readme.