The QHotkey is a class that can be used to create hotkeys/global shortcuts, aka shortcuts that work everywhere, independent of the application state. This means your application can be active, inactive, minimized or not visible at all and still receive the shortcuts.

- Works on Windows, Mac and X11

- Easy to use, can use `QKeySequence` for easy shortcut input

For you this means: QHotkey instances on other threads than the main thread may take a little longer to register/unregister/translate hotkeys, because they have to wait for the main thread to do this for them. **Important:** there is however, one additional limitation that comes with that feature: QHotkey instances on other threads but the main thread *must* be unregistered or destroyed *before* the main eventloop ends. Otherwise, your application will hangup on destruction of the hotkey. This limitation does not apply for instances on the main thread. Furthermore, the same happens if you change the shortcut or register/unregister before the loop started, until it actually starts.

- I built it with Qt 5.5.1, but may work with earlier versions, too