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xhotkeys

NAME

xhotkeys - Bind keys and mouse events to commands in the X-Window

SYNOPSIS

xhotkeys [options]

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of xhotkeys is to provide a simple and easy configurable hotkey launcher for the X-Window System, independent from the desktop (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, ...) used.

Although xhotkeys has a graphical GTK+ configurator, it's possible to manage configuration files manually.

CONFIGURATION

The xhotkeys daemon should be run after X user logs in. All desktop interfaces provide (or should provide) a way to do this automatically (for example, Gnome has the Startup Programs at Sessions). Take a look on the documentation.

OPTIONS

\-h | \-\-help

Displays the help message and exit

\-v | \-\-verbose Increase the level of verbosity (0: error, 1: info, 2: debug)

\-c | \-\-config Start GTK+ configurator

\-f | \-\-configuration\-file configuration_file Alternative configuration file

CONFIGURATION FILE

By default, $HOME/.xhotkeys would be used. Any line beggining with # is ignored. Hotkeys are defined that way:

 name=[<modifier1>][<modifier2>][<modifierN>]key:command
 

Hotkey names cannot use = character.

Available modifiers are: shift, control, alt, winkey, altgr, lock, and mod3. Available keys are all the strings defined in miscellany and latin1 Xlib source files. Both modifiers and keys are case-insensitive. Moreover, you can define some special key values:

 @DIGIT@ meaning keycode = DIGIT (use for keys without X-name)
 
 ButtonX meaning a mouse button (where X=1..5) 
 

Examples:

   Calculator=<control><alt>F1:xcalc
   Eyes=<control><winkey>Button3:xeyes
   Window's Info=<alt><shift>@103@:xwininfo
 

FILES

~/.xhotkeys

Default configuration for current user

~/.xhotkeys.settings-$USER

Last window's setting used on GTK+ configurator

~/.xhotkeys.pid-$USER

Pidfile for running daemon

/usr/lib/python-VERSION/site-packages/Xlib/keysymdef/latin1.py

String definitions for latin1 keycodes.

/usr/lib/python-VERSION/site-packages/Xlib/keysymdef/miscellany.py

String definitions for control keycodes.

ENVIRONMENT

USER and HOME are used to get username and user's home path.

SIGNALS

SIGHUP makes the hotkey daemon to reload the configuration file and continue running.

AUTHOR

Arnau Sanchez <arnau@ehas.org>.

Some ideas were taken from keylaunch (Ken Lynch and Stefan Pfetzing). Without their code this utility would have been painful to program.

SEE ALSO

keylaunch(1), xbindkeys(1), xev(1), xmodmap(1)