1

I am trying to control OBS using keyboard shortcuts. However, whatever keys I map, when I press them the "Find files on desktop" window pops up.

I looked at the Gnome extensions, and the only way I could suppress this behaviour was to disable the dock.

Does anyone know another way to prevent this pop-up from appearing?

Ubuntu 22.04

NickO
  • 11

2 Answers2

0

You are on Wayland. One of the current issues with Wayland is that applications cannot define global keyboard shortcuts, i.e., keyboard shortcuts of the application that are active over the entire desktop.

This does not answer your question "Does anyone know another way to prevent this pop-up from appearing?", but it tells you why the OBS shortcut keys do not work. Still, thank you for pointing out your finding that this annoying feature appears to be provided by the Ubuntu dock.

For now, a practical workaround is to switch to an Xorg session (at least when you need to record).

vanadium
  • 97,564
0

For posterity:

Disable this on 23.10 using dconf Editor:

org/gnome/mutter/wayland/xwayland-allow-grabs

Set to true.

None of the other solutions worked for me, but this did.

Gnome 45.2

Mutter

Nvidia graphics

I had also forced gdm3 to use xorg, but it seems it didn't change anything. *In fact, this made things slow and stuttery, especially in game.

J.Tho
  • 321