Starting a tauri app (or window) with a keyboard shortcut

[joepio]

I'm working on a raycast / alfred type of launcher, which users should be able to open with a simple keyboard combination, even if there is no tauri window open.

I tried using the @tauri-apps/api/globalShortcut register API, but that no longer works when the window is closed. I could keep the window open by calling hide on it, but that seems like an ugly solution.

Maybe I'm missing an API (on the Rust side), or maybe I should use a radically different approach.

[FabianLars]

If you want to completely close the window instead of hiding you indeed need to use Rust to register it instead, because without a window the js code can't run.
Here's a small example from one of our repo example:

tauri/examples/api/src-tauri/src/main.rs

Lines 197 to 209 in b02fc90

	app.run(|app_handle, e| match e {
	// Application is ready (triggered only once)
	RunEvent::Ready => {
	let app_handle = app_handle.clone();
	app_handle
	.global_shortcut_manager()
	.register("CmdOrCtrl+1", move || {
	let app_handle = app_handle.clone();
	let window = app_handle.get_window("main").unwrap();
	window.set_title("New title!").unwrap();
	})
	.unwrap();
	}

[david-plugge]

I have the same use case aswell, opening an overlay on a Keyboard shortcut. I got it working but i wonder if it would be better to hide the window instead of closing. It does feel a little more responsive. Is there a best practice?

[scottyantipa]

Ive been trying to use tauri v2 with the tauri-plugin-global-shortcut plugin but haven't gotten it working completely. I set the alpha of the window to 0 to hide it, which works nicely. However the keyboard shortcuts aren't getting registered on the Rust side (only JS which doesnt work if the window isnt focused).