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This is factually incorrect. When I press a globally grabbed key, it goes only to the grabbing application. It wouldn't make sense for the windowing system to deliver a single input event twice. I feel frustrated and annoyed when you focus on issues that are only tangentially related to the subject...

Uh, if another application intercepts the key presses, then VLC won't see them, regardless of any setting. That is factually incorrect. When I press the pause button on my keyboard while VLC has focus the media in VLC pauses playback and the other application (a macro panel that changes my system's...

Where did the "Control playback with media keys" option go, if it still exists? I want to disable previous track, next track, and play/pause buttons that exist on my keyboard as another application globally uses them.