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Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment
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[Feature Request] Ultra Quiet Mode For Use In Non-Unicode Environments #106

Open flareriderdash opened 3 years ago

flareriderdash commented 3 years ago

I must admit this is somewhat specific to my situation. I have achieved the functional execution of xkeysnail on creation of the X server with the display manager lightdm. I was running into some issues regarding the output of xkeysnail when it printed it's logo. Since it was printing unicode output to an ascii only environment, python was throwing Unicode errors and stopping execution

Since there is no way of silencing this output I had to edit the source of the init.py file under the xkeysnail directory of this repository to not print the logo, alleviating the python error.

It would be nice to have an ultra quiet commandline option that didn't print anything, at minimum not printing Unicode characters. Something like -qq or something. This way we can have the xkeysnail program serve somewhat as a daemon

Regards

Gabe

Edit: My goal was to have xkeysnail be window manager agnostic in how it is executed. I know I could have done it via start up applications.

joshgoebel commented 2 years ago

it was printing unicode output to an ascii only environment

What is the "ascii only environment" you are speaking of? I haven't heard of this from another else and I know people are running the app in various environments (console, from systemd, etc)...

joshgoebel commented 2 years ago

@flareriderdash You may want to consider upgrading to my fork, as it does not have this problem (no fancy logo).

https://github.com/joshgoebel/keyszer