inputplug - XInput event monitor
inputplug [-a address] [-f
path] [-v] [-n] [-d] [-0] -c
command-prefix
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.
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.
Probably, there are some.
Copyright (C) 2013, Andrew Shadura.
Licensed as MIT/X11.
Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>