Tdesktop: Make media hotkey support toggleable

[FrozenTux]

Telegram has apparently recently acquired support for media hotkeys to control music playback within the app.

While this is certainly a wanted feature for some users, it would be nice if there would be an option to disable media key support in Telegram, as it can get quite frustrating for an user that does not play media in Telegram on a regular basis and that uses media keys to control a media player running in the background.

This behaviour is not media-player or keyboard dependant, as I believe media hotkey support in Windows is universal.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open media player (VLC, Spotify, foobar2000 for instance) and start playback
2. Select Telegram window
3. Try to use media keys to control playback
   

   Expected behaviour

Media hotkeys affect the music player (at least there should be an option to make it so).

Actual behaviour

Media hotkeys affect Telegram, if music is currently playing. Otherwise, they do nothing.

Configuration

Operating system: Windows 10 Education x64

Version of Telegram Desktop: 0.9.32

[telegramdesktop]

@FrozenTux Currently you can look into the «tdata/shortcuts-default.json» (near the Telegram.exe file) to see the shortcuts and then you can override them in «tdata/shortcuts-custom.json». You can specify "null" (without quotes) instead of the command name to disable the shortcut usage, like this:

[
{
"command": null,
"keys": "media play"
},
{
"command": null,
"keys": "media stop"
},
{
"command": null,
"keys": "media previous"
},
{
"command": null,
"keys": "media next"
},
{
"command": null,
"keys": "media pause"
},
{
"command": null,
"keys": "toggle media play/pause"
}
]

[beschoenen]

It would be nice if Telegram only captured the media keys when its media player is active, so when music is playing or paused.

[FrozenTux]

@telegramdesktop Thanks for your answer, it works. It would be nice to implement it as an actual option, or as @beschoenen suggested automatically capture them when media is playing

[wildweasel486]

I would like to chime in with my desire for this to be a supported option. I wasn't even aware Telegram had its own media player built-in; I have foobar2000 constantly open and playing and had to struggle for a bit to figure out why I couldn't skip tracks.

I can only hope that the devs haven't forgotten about this...unless they're busy with other stuff. I'm not trying to be impatient. =P

[beschoenen]

What happened here?

[auchri]

It would be nice if Telegram only captured the media keys when its media player is active, so when music is playing or paused.

this.

[jovobe]

This seems to be a problem on macOS now.

[auchri]

@jovobe Update to the latest version, it's fixed.

[jovobe]

@auchri I'm on 0.10.16 on macOS. I think this is the latest version. This Issues is back since the last update.

[auchri]

Latest version is 0.10.18

[jovobe]

@auchri thank You for Your hint! It seems I was stuck on a very old version that the auto updater could not update. I'm now on version 2.27.51120 (which looks more like a native app) and the bug is gone.

[auchri]

That's another app 😁