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When I take off my headphones the game pauses in singleplayer and multiplayer. In multiplayer I can unpause normally but in singleplayer this is not possible - I need to save the game and load it again to unpause. (as far as I can tell it triggers a multiplayer pause in singleplayer)
Notably, nothing happens when I put my headphones back on.

I am playing on 2.0.9 (build 79509 expansion, linux64) but this also happened prior to 2.0

running showkeys:
when I take headphones off: when I put them on: running showkeys --scancodes
when I take headphones off: when I put them on:

Thanks for the report. This sounds like the software for your headphones is sending the "pause" key and by default in Factorio that ... is the key to pause. As far as I know, we do not do anything special with headphones.

That makes sense

I still think that there is an issue with pausing in single player: without pressing the pause key again, it impossible to unpause - as there is no button/GUI. I imagine a GUI element to unpause should appear or, in singleplayer, should just open the game menu (which pauses the game in a different way).

There is also no indication the game is paused in singleplayer other than the darker background making it difficult to tell what has happened.

You can unbind the "Pause game" control in the settings.