hotkeyd
Hotkeyd is a tiny daemon which runs in the background and executes commands tied to certain keypresses in the config file.
Based on keyd developed by Benjamin Bolton.
CHANGES
- no -c/--config flag: su uses /etc/hotkeyd.conf; others use ~/.config/hotkeyd.conf
- removed the systemd shit
- logging is now deprecated
- renamed to hotkeyd
LICENSE
hotkeyd is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) more info
COMPILING
To build simply run
make
To change the compiler use the CC variable
make CC=g++
INSTALLING
To install simply run
sudo make install
To change to root dir for installing (e.g. for building a binary package), use the DESTDIR variable, e.g.
sudo make DESTDIR=pkg/ install
UNINSTALLING
To uninstall simply run
make uninstall
Note: This makes use of the DESTDIR variable
CONFIGURING
The default configuration script is located at "/etc/hotkeyd.conf".
The format of this file is:
<KEYS> <COMMAND>
where is a list of modifiers and a key seperated by a '+', e.g.:
F1 <command when F1 pressed>
LEFTCTRL+F1 <command when Control-F1 pressed>
You can use hotkeyd --test to get a list of key names
RUNNING
the Makefile will install daemon packages for initscripts.
To start the daemon using initscripts run as root:
/etc/rc.d/hotkeyd start
and to stop it run as root:
/etc/rc.d/hotkeyd stop
To enable it to run at startup add hotkeyd to the DAEMONS array of /etc/rc.conf
hotkeyd can also be run indepently of the daemon scripts by running
hotkeyd, see hotkeyd --help for information on usage
THANKS
- To Benjamin Bolton for sharing the source code of keyd.