piutranq / sxhkd-statusd

The daemon redirects sxhkd status from named pipe to unix domain socket for accessing from multiple clients.

sxhkd-statusd

The daemon redirects sxhkd status from named pipe to unix domain socket for accessing from multiple clients.

Installation

• Just make and make install. By default, the binary placed at /usr/local/bin.

git clone https://github.com/piutranq/sxhkd-statusd
cd ./sxhkd-statusd
make
sudo make install

• To uninstall, use make uninstall

Usage

sxhkd-statusd [options] [source]

source

The sxhkd status pipe to read.

Make sure the sxhkd-statusd is the only process is reading the pipe.

The clients can access sxhkd-statusd by connect to [source].sxhkd-statusd

options

• --help|-h: Show the help message and exit.
• --log|-l: Set log level as following argument. The default value is info
  • error: Log only the error messages.
  • info: Log the error messages and some additional information, such as open/closing file descriptor
  • verbose: Log more information, such as sxhkd event
  • silent: Do not log any messages, including the error messages.

example

# Launch the daemon
sxhkd-statusd -l error /run/user/$UID/sxhkd.fifo

# Connect to the daemon from a client process
socat UNIX-CONNECT:/run/user/$UID/sxhkd.fifo.sxhkd-statusd -