Discord push-to-talk when not in focus?

I've installed discord through flathub, but unfortunately I can't communicate with anyone without having the discord window in focus which includes games. I've had a hard time finding information on this, but it seems like the issue is related to wayland and there's no workaround? Can anyone confirm if that's true or if it's possible to use discord when it's not focused as I use it a lot for work and games and it's unusable without. Gnome, Desktop
Solution:
but they seem to be adding the feature in gnome 48 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2838
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asen23
asen232w ago
the vanilla client should be supported for this, but custom client like vesktop needs to implement it (vesktop doesnt yet)
Whiskey
WhiskeyOP2w ago
If by vanilla client you mean the official one, then yes that is what I'm using. Is there something I need to do in Flatseal?
asen23
asen232w ago
no its just works ootb for me i just tried it
Whiskey
WhiskeyOP2w ago
Let me reinstall, thank you
asen23
asen232w ago
btw are you using gnome or kde?
Whiskey
WhiskeyOP2w ago
Gnome
asen23
asen232w ago
hmm, maybe gnome have some weird global hotkey thing i use kde
Whiskey
WhiskeyOP2w ago
Reinstall didn't help sadly
asen23
asen232w ago
it seems like gnome doesnt have legacy x11 support of global hotkey
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asen23
asen232w ago
but they seem to be adding the feature in gnome 48 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2838
Whiskey
WhiskeyOP2w ago
4 years ago... oof
asen23
asen232w ago
it should land in about a week or so
Whiskey
WhiskeyOP2w ago
I'll wait it out, thanks for your help!
Whiskey
WhiskeyOP2d ago
Just an updated, I've updated to Bazzite 42 which has Gnome 48 support for global hotkey and while in a game launched via steam I can communicate with people over discord using the global hotkey. (no config needed) Other applications like firefox however do not recognize the global hotkey so ptt won't work when those are in focus.

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