Unable to summon hyper without first manually opening an instance of it

[jcklpe]

• I am on the latest hyperterm-summon version
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: Windows 10
• Hyper.app version: Canary 2
• hyperterm-summon version: latest
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js:https://gist.github.com/jcklpe/2770325dbcb56b9e6c5d4c41e04e1d46
• Relevant information from devtools (CMD+ALT+I on Mac OS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere):

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Issue

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start up computer
2. hit hotkey for hyperterm-summon

Expected Result

hyper.js starts

Actual Result

hyper doesn't start.

I don't actually know if this is an issue: Is it even possible to assign a global hotkey to activate an electron app that hasn't yet been started? I assume not. This seems to me like it is probably within the parameters of expected behavior. But I was asked to make a ticket so I did. I went ahead and made an AutoHotkey macro to summon hyper anyway, and the hyper-summon plugin allows me to minimize and and summon it once it's open.

[dcalhoun]

Thank you for opening this separate issue, it helps keep threads focused.

From my brief research, I believe you are correct that this is not possible. Electron must be running for it to register a global shortcut.

Happy to hear that you have a work around for now. If you investigate further and find a way to accomplish this, let me know! In the meantime, I'm going to close this issue.

Thanks again.

[jcklpe]

For future Windows users who might face this issue here's some info on the AHK solution.

1. Install AHK
2. write a file that contains the following config.
   ^+.:: ; ctrl+shift+. to launch hyper.js Run C:\Users\{{YOUR USERNAME}}\AppData\Local\hyper\app-2.0.0\Hyper.exe Return
3. Hit the win key and type run to open the windows runner.
4. type shell:startup to open the Windows shell startup folder.
5. Place the file.ahk in the folder. Now that ahk script will always register itself at start time.