ElectronGlobalShortcut.register method

ElectronGlobalShortcut › register

Unofficial

Registers a global shortcut of accelerator. The callback is called when the registered shortcut is pressed by the user.

When the accelerator is already taken by other applications, this call will silently fail.

Signature:

register(accelerator: string, callback: () => void): boolean

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
accelerator	string	The accelerator to register.
callback	() => void	Called when the registered shortcut is pressed.

Returns: boolean — Whether or not the shortcut was registered successfully.