<![CDATA[[Solved]Opera stealing media keys]]>Hello,

It may come from chromium, but it looks like Opera steals the media keys hook and don't release it until closed.

For reference: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Media-Keys-Don-t-Work/m-p/4828158/highlight/true#M19062

I confirm the same behaviour. Opera, after playing a video on facebook inhibited the media keys for Spotify.
Closing/reopening Opera fixed it. Even by playing a youtube video, Spotify keep its hook to the media keys. I don't know if it is easily reproducible, though.

Any confirmation ?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/35566/solved-opera-stealing-media-keysRSS for NodeWed, 09 Sep 2026 20:31:03 GMTSat, 05 Oct 2019 22:48:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera stealing media keys on Sun, 06 Oct 2019 12:49:41 GMT]]>Hi Leo,

Thanks

I don't know how I forget to search the forums before asking...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/183767https://forums.opera.com/post/183767Sun, 06 Oct 2019 12:49:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera stealing media keys on Sun, 06 Oct 2019 01:14:09 GMT]]>@mmichel As already mentioned in other similar topics, try disabling the following Chromium flag:

opera://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/183736https://forums.opera.com/post/183736Sun, 06 Oct 2019 01:14:09 GMT