This Glib event loop is console based. Below is the same basic script with a while loop instead of a Glib loop. Glib loops are nice because you can launch filewatchers and timers too. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Glib;
use Glib qw/TRUE FALSE/;

use Term::ReadKey;
$|++;
ReadMode('cbreak');

my $main_loop = Glib::MainLoop->new;

Glib::Idle->add(
        sub{
            my $char;
            if (defined ($char = ReadKey(0)) ) {
            print "$char->", ord($char),"\n";    
            #process key presses here
            }
          return TRUE; #keep this going
          });
       
$main_loop->run;
ReadMode('normal'); # restore normal tty settings
__END__

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with a plain while loop 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Term::ReadKey;
$|=1;

ReadMode('cbreak');

my $key = '';
 while ( $key ne 'q' ) {
     while (not defined ($key = ReadKey(-1))) {
         # No key yet
      }
    print "Get key '$key'\n";
    print ord($key);
    print "\n";
 }


__END__

while(1){
my $char;
if (defined ($char = ReadKey(0)) ) {
        print "$char->", ord($char),"\n";    # input was waiting and i
+t was $char
} else {
          # no input was waiting
        }
}

ReadMode('normal');                  # restore normal tty settings

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In reply to Re: Perl Hotkey/Shortcut by zentara
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