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Simple X hotkey daemon
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Xorg bindcodes #180

Open smhsketch opened 4 years ago

smhsketch commented 4 years ago

How can I bind a bindcode to a command with sxhkd? I was able to do this fairly easily with i3, but after switching to sxhkd and bspwm, I'm unable to find a way to do this. I have several buttons on my laptop keyboard that are only usable with bindcodes, not by name. I'd appreciate some help on this.

jallbrit commented 4 years ago

If you are referring to keys such as Volume Up and Volume Down, then you can run xev in a terminal, press the keys you are referring to, and watch the output of xev for the name of the key. For example, when I hit the "volume down" key on my laptop, xev says:

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0xd000001,
    root 0x1e5, subw 0x402f8f, time 312381508, (165,232), root:(1607,786),
    state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

You can see in the output that the name of the key is XF86AudioLowerVolume. You can use the XF86 key names in sxhkd like any other keys.

appetrosyan commented 3 years ago

I think this is related to #216, and there's already a PR in progress to have that functionality.