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[Windows] Global shortcut interference #514

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@fuzzyweapon

So I use Greenshot (I just started using it on Windows recently though) to take screenshots. It's a pretty popular program for that purpose.

Greenshot intercepts standard prtsc keybindings to activate a region selection screenshot tool. This has worked 100% of the time in all apps until I ran into Potato.

When Potato has focus, it is still being used as the native functionality. I do not have prtsc bound to anything in Potato. Could this be because of the way Potato deals with shortcuts itself? Note, I have made sure that Potato does not have any auxiliary windows up or anything (world settings, etc), to isolate possible extraneous variables.

Greenshot compatibility might be niche, but the broader concern might be that this would affect other applications' keybindings that are not bound in Potato because Potato isn't falling back. I haven't tested this and have no idea if "fixing" this would make Potato bindings impossible, so take this all with a grain of salt.

My use case:
I confess that I like sharing poses and mush ascii art via screenshot bc they are often easier to see this way, but I'm not really into showing people all of the worlds and alts I have open. My alternative is to use the alt+prtsc (capture window) functionality and then edit every single screenshot to crop out my other mushes and characters (connections) before dropping it in Discord/etc which kind of makes the idea of impromptu shares tedious and moot.

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