play/pause controls from keyboard or headphones only work when vlc window is active (Windows 10)

The control input is only recognized by the vlc player if the window is currently active. So neither input via a keyboard (Logitech G915 in my case) nor headphones (XM4) are being recognized by the player if it is not the currently active window (any other player, even a youtube-browser tab recognizes such an input if they are being minimized or non active)

This is very annoying when you work with several monitors and want to pause a running video on monitor 1 (vlc), while either scrolling through slides or writing something in the active window on monitor 2.

To pause the video I therefore can't just use my controls, but have to go back to monitor 1 with the mouse-cursor (or alt+tab) and pause via mouse-click or space bar, which renders the whole point of the controls on keyboard or headphones obsolete.