NAME¶
inputplug - XInput event monitor
SYNOPSIS¶
inputplug [
-a address] [
-f path] [
-v]
[
-n] [
-d] [
-0]
-c command-prefix
DESCRIPTION¶
inputplug is a daemon which connects to a running X server and monitors
its XInput hierarchy change events. Such events arrive when a device being
attached or removed, enabled or disabled etc.
When a hierarchy change happens,
inputplug parses the event notification
structure, and calls the command specified by
command-prefix. The
command receives three arguments:
- command-prefix event-type device-id
device-type device-name
Event type may be one of the following:
- •
- XIMasterAdded
- •
- XIMasterRemoved
- •
- XISlaveAdded
- •
- XISlaveRemoved
- •
- XISlaveAttached
- •
- XISlaveDetached
- •
- XIDeviceEnabled
- •
- XIDeviceDisabled
Device type may be any of those:
- •
- XIMasterPointer
- •
- XIMasterKeyboard
- •
- XISlavePointer
- •
- XISlaveKeyboard
- •
- XIFloatingSlave
Device identifier is an integer. Beware that the device name is likely to
contain spaces.
Also, if compiled with
libixp, inputplug can post events to the
wmii event file. To enable
wmii support, the address of its
9P server needs to be specified.
OPTIONS¶
A summary of options is included below.
- -v
- Be a bit more verbose.
- -n
- Start up, monitor events, but don't actually run anything. With verbose
more enabled, would print the actual command it'd run. This implies
-d.
- -d
- Don't daemonize. Run in the foreground.
- -0
- On start, trigger added and enabled events for each plugged devices. A
master device will trigger the "added" event while a slave
device will trigger both the "added" and the "enabled"
device.
- -c command-prefix
- Command prefix to run. Unfortunately, currently this is passed to
execvp(3) directly, so spaces aren't allowed. This is subject to
change in future.
- -a address
- The address at which to connect to wmii. The address takes the form
<protocol>!<address>. If an empty string is
passed, inputplug tries to find wmii automatically.
- -f path
- Path to the event file within 9P filesystem served by wmii.
The default is /event.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- DISPLAY
- X11 display to connect to.
- WMII_ADDRESS
- wmii address.
BUGS¶
Probably, there are some.
SEE ALSO¶
xinput(1)
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (C) 2013, Andrew Shadura.
Licensed as MIT/X11.
AUTHOR¶
Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>