pegvin / mhkd

mini hotkey daemon

mhkd - mini hotkey daemon

originally written by Peter Hofmann, mhkd is a fork of nhkd

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Installation

nhkd depends on libx11 and expects to be run on a POSIX-ish operating system.

You must customize the program by creating your own config.h based on config.def.h. In any case, config.h must exist in order to build the program.

To build the program and install it to /usr/local:

$ make
# make install

Running

Run it from your ~/.xinitrc:

while sleep 0.25; do mhkd; done &

The loop ensures that you can easily restart the daemon by killing it.

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My Personal Config

# ~/.xinitrc

mhkd &

// config.h

#include <X11/XF86keysym.h>
#include <X11/keysym.h>

bool debug_print_spawned_command = false;

struct MouseEvent mouse_events[] = {
    { 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL }
};

struct KeyEvent key_events[] = {
    { KeyPress, 0, XF86XK_AudioLowerVolume, "sh -c \"bash ~/.local/bin/volume down; bash ~/.local/bin/dwmbar once;\"" },
    { KeyPress, 0, XF86XK_AudioMute, "sh -c \"bash ~/.local/bin/volume toggle; bash ~/.local/bin/dwmbar once;\"" },
    { KeyPress, 0, XF86XK_AudioRaiseVolume, "sh -c \"bash ~/.local/bin/volume up; bash ~/.local/bin/dwmbar once;\"" },
    { KeyPress, 0, XK_Print, "sh -c \"bash ~/.local/bin/aunty capture;\"" },
    { 0, 0, 0, NULL }
};

My config is simple, it runs a command on volume up, down & mute, and calls a custom screenshot script.

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Thanks