Significant amount of delay in command execution from key binding

[ohxxm]

When using SXHKD with i3, I am getting a delay in execution of the command (1 second minimum). I don't know what's causing this issue and there is no error outputted either. I am currently on Fedora 36 and have installed sxhkd from DNF (Fedora's package manager).

[emanuele6]

That sounds suspicious.

It is probably caused by an information about your system you have not shared: your user's login shell.

sxhkd uses the content of the SHELL environment variable (i.e. the user's login shell) to run commands. (that can be overwritten by introducing a SXHKD_SHELL variable in the environment.)

You are either using a non-standard shell that has a slow start-up time like tcsh or fish (see #161).

(If you are using a shell like fish or tcsh, your hotkeys may also not be compatible with dash so make sure they are); or that maybe you are using the standard fedora shell (bash), but it is still too slow for your system.

( In the comment I mentioned earlier, you can't see tcsh, but know that, if you are using tcsh are your sxhkd shell, it will extremely slow (way more than fish): on my PC, tcsh takes 0.105seconds just to run one tcsh -c '/bin/echo hi' )

I suggest you to explictly tell sxhkd what shell to use to run hotkey commands (passing an SXHKD_SHELL environment variable), and to use dash as your sxhkd shell. It has a way faster start-up time than any other shell, including bash.

Make sure you have dash installed, and run sxhkd as:

SXHKD_SHELL=/bin/dash sxhkd &

## instead of as just:
#sxhkd &

Or just make sure that SXHKD_SHELL=/bin/dash is present in the environment and that sxhkd inherits it.

[ohxxm]

This fixed the issue thanks