inputplug - XInput event monitor
inputplug [-v] [-n] [-d] [-0]
-c command-prefix
inputplug [-h|--help]
inputplug is a daemon which connects to a running X server
and monitors its XInput hierarchy change events. Such events arrive when a
device is 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 four 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. The device name may have embedded
spaces.
A summary of options is included below.
- -h, --help
- Show help (--help shows more details).
- -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 daemonise. 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.
- -p pidfile
- Write the process ID of the running daemon to the file pidfile
Copyright (C) 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021 Andrej Shadura.
Copyright (C) 2014, 2020 Vincent Bernat.
Licensed as MIT/X11.
Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>