bbenne10/xinputd

Simple Xorg input watching daemon which executes command on attach or detach of input devices

Xinputd - simple Xorg input device watcher

Xinputd is a simple daemon that executes a command when an Xorg input device is added or removed. By default, Xinputd forks to background and exits when the X server exits.

USAGE:

xinputd [option] command_with_options_to_execute

OPTIONS:

• -h Show help and exit
• -n Don't fork to background

EXAMPLE

To swap caps and escape every time you plug a new device in:

  $ xinputd setxkb -option caps:escape

More complex solutions may be better solved with a script as the execution target.

TODO

• More fine grained control about what devices trigger command execution (Right now all devices do!)
• Debouncing execution so we don't run more often than necessary (Devices that take a second to power up will currently trigger a new execution)

HERITAGE AND THANKS

This project owes quite a bit to portix for srandrd. (If interested, my fork of srandr can be found here.) Without his work there, I would never have considered this a viable approach to take to solve this issue. Additionally, I cribbed quite a bit of code from that project. Thanks, portix!

In addition, I owe a beer to the author of almost every poster of an xcb code snippet on the internet. So cheers!