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
- DISPLAY
-
X11 display to connect to.
Copyright (C) 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021 Andrej Shadura.
Copyright (C) 2014, 2020 Vincent Bernat.
Licensed as MIT/X11.
Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>