Hi all,
As requested I’m re-posting each of the What snap needs to improve Electron support topics individually so they can each be better discussed.
The intention of this post is to highlight an outstanding issue, and hopefully get it priortised, that would help improve snap support for developers building on Electron.
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Media Keys do not work in strictly confined snaps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1663565
There are several (one in particular) desirable media streaming applications built on top of Electron or Chromium framework that can integrate with media keys. However, the media keys are not being exposed so it is not possible to skip tracks or play/pause using media keys.
The upstream issue says this was fixed in snapd 2.23 but running Ubuntu 16.04.2 and snapd
2.25 I’m still not able to skip tracks or pause using the media keys.