Can love2D detect keypresses when unfocused?

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Connorses
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Can love2D detect keypresses when unfocused?

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I would like to press a key and have my love2D program respond without me first focusing the love2D window by clicking it. Would be useful for, say, a livestream visual that I can alter with a key press.
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Re: Can love2D detect keypresses when unfocused?

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Doesnt look like it.
If youre the only user a quick hack in would be to just read from /dev/input in a thread.
I am not aware of other simple ways, let alone one that universally works.
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Re: Can love2D detect keypresses when unfocused?

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While keyboard and mouse won't really work like that, you can try whether gamepad input works when unfocused, that has a higher chance i think.
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Re: Can love2D detect keypresses when unfocused?

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There's always the option to poll the keyboard through FFI, but that's OS-specific. For example, on Windows you can import and call GetAsyncKeyState to query the state of a key.
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