On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:15:17 +0300 George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 01:51, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > > Hi! > > Hi, > > > I wrote a small daemon in perl which listens for keystrokes on > > the /dev/input/event[0123] input event devices and executes small > > commands or even complex scripts when certain keys are pressed. > > > > I know that there are already tools performing similar tasks like > > hotkeys. But all of them rely on X. My script will work even without a > > xserver running. The downside of this approach is that you cannot use > > the daemon to start programs like your browser, mail client and such. > > A thing I'm not so sure about is the way I use the input.h kernel > > header. Is this a clean approach? > > If you include /usr/include/linux/input.h from the linux-kernel-headers > package and not from the linux kernel source directory, then I think it is > fine. But do in mind that your package will not run on Hurd or *BSD, so it > will not be architecture all (if you declared it that way, I haven't checked > that, though). So I will have to specify a list of all archs but bsd and hurd? Is there a similar interface on BSD or hurd one could use for this purpose? > > Now I'm looking for a sponsor to include this package in debian. > > I hope you will find a sponsor. Thanks! On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:18:06 +0100 martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote: > Why not? We really should have a proper script in /usr/bin that does > > XAUTHORITY=$(ps ax | sed -rne 's,.*/usr/bin/X .*-auth ([-/:._[:alnum:]]+).*,\1,p') > > but it should make sure that it's selecting the right X server when > there are more than one running. fine. That would be my next task then ;). But I haven't much time in the next few weeks :( But hey, this one-liner could be included in the examples since the daemon supports scripts. But one question: This will not preserve the users environment, will it?
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