global-hotkey

Global hotkeys for Desktop Applications

0.8.0 4.6M downloads/mo #4683 most downloaded on crates.io tauri-apps/global-hotkey

What this package is like to depend on

Last release 3 months ago

01 May 2026

Release timing varies

gaps range from 4 weeks to 12 months

Rarely documented

notes for 6 of 26 stable releases

Nothing withdrawn

no release was ever pulled

4 years old

26 releases · first in 2023

1 release in the last 12 months

see the full history below

Release timeline

26 releases · Jan 2023 to May 2026

2024 2025 2026

Release Pre-release

Releases

latest 26

0.8.0 01 May 2026

Release notes

[0.8.0]

d706220 (#165 by @SergioRibera) Increased MSRV to 1.77.
5c3d182 (#178 by @amrbashir) On Windows, sleep 50ms in the release-detection loop to avoid burning a CPU core for the whole hold duration (e.g. push-to-talk).
23b71e1 (#170 by @PiasekDev) Add X11 keysym mappings for F13-F24.

Cargo Publish

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   Packaging global-hotkey v0.8.0 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
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    Packaged 31 files, 272.3KiB (70.6KiB compressed)
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  Downloaded bitflags v2.8.0
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  Downloaded x11rb v0.13.1
  Downloaded syn v2.0.96
  Downloaded rustix v0.38.44
  Downloaded x11rb-protocol v0.13.1
  Downloaded libc v0.2.169
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   Compiling once_cell v1.21.4
   Compiling xkeysym v0.2.1
   Compiling serde_derive v1.0.217
   Compiling thiserror-impl v2.0.11
   Compiling bitflags v2.8.0
   Compiling keyboard-types v0.7.0
   Compiling x11rb v0.13.1
   Compiling global-hotkey v0.8.0 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey/target/package/global-hotkey-0.8.0)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 16.72s
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0.7.0 07 May 2025

Release notes

[0.7.0]

77dbe4e (#150 by @Exidex) Use x11rb crate instead of x11-dl for linux (x11) backend.

Cargo Publish

Updating crates.io index
   Packaging global-hotkey v0.7.0 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
    Updating crates.io index
    Packaged 31 files, 270.5KiB (68.0KiB compressed)
   Verifying global-hotkey v0.7.0 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
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  Downloaded xkeysym v0.2.1
  Downloaded unicode-segmentation v1.12.0
  Downloaded as-raw-xcb-connection v1.0.1
  Downloaded syn v2.0.96
  Downloaded crossbeam-utils v0.8.21
  Downloaded serde_derive v1.0.217
  Downloaded quote v1.0.38
  Downloaded x11rb-protocol v0.13.1
  Downloaded libloading v0.8.6
  Downloaded libc v0.2.169
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  Downloaded rustix v0.38.44
  Downloaded cfg-if v1.0.0
  Downloaded unicode-ident v1.0.15
  Downloaded serde v1.0.217
  Downloaded errno v0.3.10
  Downloaded once_cell v1.20.2
  Downloaded x11rb v0.13.1
  Downloaded linux-raw-sys v0.4.15
   Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.93
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   Compiling serde v1.0.217
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   Compiling linux-raw-sys v0.4.15
   Compiling unicode-segmentation v1.12.0
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   Compiling quote v1.0.38
   Compiling syn v2.0.96
   Compiling once_cell v1.20.2
   Compiling xkeysym v0.2.1
   Compiling serde_derive v1.0.217
   Compiling thiserror-impl v2.0.11
   Compiling bitflags v2.8.0
   Compiling keyboard-types v0.7.0
   Compiling x11rb v0.13.1
   Compiling global-hotkey v0.7.0 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey/target/package/global-hotkey-0.7.0)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 12.05s
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Open source →

0.6.4 21 Feb 2025

Release notes

[0.6.4]

a25c485 (#120 by @FabianLars) Update objc2 to 0.6. This raises the MSRV to 1.71 which is now also set in rust-version.

Cargo Publish

Updating crates.io index
   Packaging global-hotkey v0.6.4 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
    Updating crates.io index
    Packaged 31 files, 261.4KiB (65.8KiB compressed)
   Verifying global-hotkey v0.6.4 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
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  Downloaded pkg-config v0.3.31
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  Downloaded once_cell v1.20.2
  Downloaded libc v0.2.169
   Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.93
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   Compiling serde v1.0.217
   Compiling pkg-config v0.3.31
   Compiling libc v0.2.169
   Compiling crossbeam-utils v0.8.21
   Compiling x11-dl v2.21.0
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   Compiling quote v1.0.38
   Compiling unicode-segmentation v1.12.0
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   Compiling serde_derive v1.0.217
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   Compiling bitflags v2.8.0
   Compiling keyboard-types v0.7.0
   Compiling global-hotkey v0.6.4 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey/target/package/global-hotkey-0.6.4)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 15.82s
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Open source →

0.6.3 29 Oct 2024

Release notes

[0.6.3]

ddf5515 (#112 by @amrbashir) Support using Pause or PauseBreak key on Windows and Linux.

Cargo Publish

Updating crates.io index
   Packaging global-hotkey v0.6.3 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
    Updating crates.io index
    Packaged 31 files, 243.7KiB (62.0KiB compressed)
   Verifying global-hotkey v0.6.3 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
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  Downloaded libc v0.2.161
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   Compiling x11-dl v2.21.0
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   Compiling bitflags v2.6.0
   Compiling keyboard-types v0.7.0
   Compiling global-hotkey v0.6.3 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey/target/package/global-hotkey-0.6.3)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 9.06s
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0.6.2 11 Sep 2024

Release notes

[0.6.2]

2c7397b (#106 by @FabianLars) Fixed an issue causing compilation to fail for 32-bit targets.

Cargo Publish

Updating crates.io index
   Packaging global-hotkey v0.6.2 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
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  Downloaded syn v2.0.77
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   Compiling quote v1.0.37
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   Compiling global-hotkey v0.6.2 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey/target/package/global-hotkey-0.6.2)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 9.30s
    Packaged 31 files, 243.6KiB (62.0KiB compressed)
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0.6.1 08 Sep 2024

Release notes

[0.6.1]

7d15d09 (#99 by @madsmtm) Use objc2 internally, leading to slightly better memory- and type-safety.

Cargo Publish

Updating crates.io index
   Packaging global-hotkey v0.6.1 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey)
    Updating crates.io index
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   Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.86
   Compiling unicode-ident v1.0.12
   Compiling serde v1.0.210
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   Compiling libc v0.2.158
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   Compiling thiserror v1.0.63
   Compiling unicode-segmentation v1.11.0
   Compiling quote v1.0.37
   Compiling once_cell v1.19.0
   Compiling crossbeam-channel v0.5.13
   Compiling syn v2.0.77
   Compiling serde_derive v1.0.210
   Compiling thiserror-impl v1.0.63
   Compiling bitflags v2.6.0
   Compiling keyboard-types v0.7.0
   Compiling global-hotkey v0.6.1 (/home/runner/work/global-hotkey/global-hotkey/target/package/global-hotkey-0.6.1)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 13.91s
    Packaged 31 files, 243.9KiB (62.1KiB compressed)
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0.6.0 15 Aug 2024

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0.5.5 13 Aug 2024

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0.5.4 27 May 2024

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0.5.3 24 Apr 2024

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0.5.2 23 Apr 2024

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0.5.1 07 Mar 2024

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0.5.0 06 Mar 2024

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0.4.2 18 Jan 2024

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0.4.1 24 Nov 2023

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0.4.0 19 Oct 2023

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0.3.0 01 Sep 2023

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0.2.4 13 Aug 2023

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0.2.3 08 Jul 2023

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0.2.2 13 Jun 2023

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0.2.1 12 May 2023

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0.2.0 19 Apr 2023

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0.1.2 12 Feb 2023

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0.1.1 08 Feb 2023

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0.1.0 16 Jan 2023

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0.0.0 16 Jan 2023

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global-hotkey

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