Currently, the Wayland protocol itself doesn't have a standard solution to global shortcuts. Instead, it's being pushed to the XDG Desktop Portal API, under the org.freedesktop.portal.GlobalShortcuts service:
This should work with Hyprland provided that you are using xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, as it does indeed have an implementation of GlobalShortcuts.
I'm not sure if this API is sufficient for your needs, or if it is too much of a pain to use. Like many Wayland things, it prescribes certain use cases and doesn't handle others. The "configure" call seems to rely on xdg-foreign-unstable-v2 support, but AFAIK Hyprland doesn't support this protocol, so I have no idea what you're supposed to do on Hyprland for this case.
I am sorry to see developers have to deal with things in a relatively unfinished state, but such is the nature of the open source desktop.
Thanks for the insight, I really appreciate it. I don't use hyperland (just what came up as brief research). Xfce generally has simple and legible code, hopefully this wayland compositor will be just as hackable and tweakable for my needs.
https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.fr...
This should work with Hyprland provided that you are using xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, as it does indeed have an implementation of GlobalShortcuts.
I'm not sure if this API is sufficient for your needs, or if it is too much of a pain to use. Like many Wayland things, it prescribes certain use cases and doesn't handle others. The "configure" call seems to rely on xdg-foreign-unstable-v2 support, but AFAIK Hyprland doesn't support this protocol, so I have no idea what you're supposed to do on Hyprland for this case.
I am sorry to see developers have to deal with things in a relatively unfinished state, but such is the nature of the open source desktop.