Electron Releases

Description of Change

Enables GlobalShortcutsPortalPreferredTrigger by default on Linux, so that globalShortcut works on GNOME Wayland out of the box. Inspired by a conversation with @mitchchn.

Chromium gates the GlobalShortcuts portal on GNOME behind GlobalAcceleratorListener::GetInstance added in crrev.com/c/7620219). When the feature is off, every globalShortcut.register() call fails silently, from the app's perspective. On GNOME Wayland (the only GNOME session type on Ubuntu 26.04), that means globalShortcut is a no-op unless every Electron app author independently discovers a Chromium feature flag.

This is a no-op outside GNOME. Verified against a local build on Linux (headless Ozone, private session bus, simulated XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME):

• Before: globalShortcut.register() → false on GNOME with no flags (listener never created).
• After: register() → true on GNOME with no flags; portal session is created.
• After + --disable-features=GlobalShortcutsPortalPreferredTrigger: register() → false (user override wins).
• Non-GNOME: true before and after (unchanged).

Checklist

• PR description included and stakeholders cc'd
• npm test passes locally
• PR title follows semantic commit guidelines

Release Notes

Notes: Fixed globalShortcut not working on GNOME Wayland by enabling Chromium's GlobalShortcutsPortalPreferredTrigger feature by default on Linux.