/shotkey

A simple and lightweight hotkey daemon for X with configurable custom modes and key chords (in ~200 LOC)

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SHotKey

A Simple Hot Key daemon for X inspired by the suckless philosophy with configurable custom modes.

~200 LOC. ~20KB binary.

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Installation

Clone the repo and run (May need sudo)

make install

Configuring

Fork this repo and configure it to your likings. You can edit config.h to configure key bindings.

  • shell - Configure the shell used for executing the commands
  • modes - A mapping defining all mode keys bindings
  • keys - All normal mode key bindings
  • on_mode_change - Hook script to listen to mode changes. Useful for status bar integration
  • mode_properties - Some meta information about mode. (Label is useful for on_mode_change)

You can checkout the personal branch for my personal config.

Read the man page for more details.