speckeyd - X11 Special Key Daemon

Title:

xspeckeyd

Version:

1.0

Description:

A simple program which watches for certain key combinations and reports when they happen.

This is useful for emergency actions such as running a new window manager or logging out when a certain combination is pressed or as a more generic replacement for the functionality provided by the Solaris 2.4+ program speckeyd.

Usage: xspeckeyd [-display display] key action key2 action2 ...
where each key is a keysym name, optionally preceeded by modifiers of the form Shift- (or s), Meta- (or m) or Control- (or c) and each action is a string passed to /bin/sh or one of the builtin actions.

The builtin actions are:

• :quit - causes the program to exit.
• :hold - Grabs the server while that key is down.

Basically this is minute fragment of a window manager.

Typical use:

            xspeckeyd -display :0 m-s-c-F1 :quit \
                  SunPowerSwitch 'sys-suspend&' \
                  m-SunPowerSwitch '/etc/pm/pmd -h' \
                  m-s-c-F3 'xterm&'

Which exits on meta-shift-control-F1, Does a suspend on SunPowerSwitch, Hibernates on meta-SunPowerSwitch and so on.

The Following Sun/Solaris keydefs are builtin:

• SunPowerSwitch (one may also specify PowerSwitch)
• SunPowerSwitchShift (PowerSwitchShift)
• SunAudioLowerVolume (AudioLowerVolume)
• SunAudioRaiseVolume (AudioRaiseVolume)
• SunAudioMute (AudioMute)
• SunVideoLowerBrightness (VideoLowerBrightness)
• SunVideoRaiseBrightness (VideoRaiseBrightness)
• SunVideoDegauss (VideoDegauss)

Maintained-at:

www.bsn.com

Platforms:

Unix + X11

Copying-policy:

Freely Redistributable

Source:

xspeckeyd.tar.gz (Check BSN)

Binary (SPARC Solaris 2.5):

xspeckeyd.2_5.sparc.pkg.gz (Temp. not available)