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Questions tagged [sxhkd]

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Where do I get xcb_event.h?

I'm 'make'-ing SXHKD on MX Linux to try keybindings and I get: $ make cc -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L -DVERSION=\"0.6.1\" -c -o sxhkd.o src/sxhkd.c src/sxhkd.c:25:10: fatal error: xcb/xcb_event.h: No such file or…
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Launching urxvt with calendar (cal) using sxhkd

Hi I'm trying to launch cal with sxhkd. And it doesn't work, the terminal window is closed right after the command is executed. I tried to do it using the following: # launch urxvt 20x8 with cal super + c urxvt -geometry 20x8 -e cal -m I also…
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How can I bind "modifier + arrow" keys to home/end/pageup/pagedown under X?

I have a new 60% keyboard (NuPhy Air60), but it does not have any way to trigger pageup/pagedown or home/end keys. My goal is to recover these commands with a custom keybinding, using a modifier key like hyper or alt, in combination with the arrow…
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Which process handles XF86 keys?

There are multimedia buttons in my keyboard, the key I am actually interested in are Brightness keys (XF86MonBrightness{UP|DOWN}). I am using bspwm window manager, and without any sxhkdrc config the brightness is automatically handled, I want to…
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bind held key without blocking typing

I have a foot pedal that I would like to toggle a file's contents when pressed and released. I have got the foot pedal acting like a normal key with a keycode and disabled it from repeating with xset -r . But when I bind it to a command…
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Is it possible to change bspwm binds to work like tmux binds?

I come from tmux and I was wondering if its possible to configure sxhkd and bspwm to have binds just like it. For example, Assuming my C-w is my prefix rather than the default C-b tmux prefix C-w h # move to left pane C-w j # move to bottom pane C-w…
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Why am I having these issues in sxhkd?

First issue: So, in my sxhkd config, I have these lines: super + i; b export b=$(acpi); notify-send -t 2000 $b super + i; r export r=$(free -h | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/available//'); notify-send -t 2000 'Available memory' $r The first…
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Can't start sxhkd as a systemd service

I'm using bspwm on my Arch Linux install and I need to run the sxhkd hotkey daemon to launch my applications. Up to now, the launch script was in my .config/bspwm/bspwmrc (which is a simple bash script file): # Keyboard bindings manager pkill…
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Bind a key to press another key with sxhkd

I recently switched over from using windows where I used to use AutoHotKey for a few temporary shortcuts and key remapping. This is a small section of the code I used: d:: { sendinput, [ sleep, 30 sendinput, !o sleep, 30 } Pressing d…
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Bspwm session displays only grey screen and keybindings dont work

Here are my bspwmrc and sxhkdrc files #AUTOSTART picom --config ~/.config/picom/picom.conf nitrogen --restore & $HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh pgrep -x sxhkd > /dev/null || sxhkd & xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr & bspc monitor -d "I" "II" "III"…
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X11: can't set custom keyboard layout when pressing Super key

I want to change the default QWERTY layout to colemak layout. I use bspwm with its default sxhkd. I tried setting it in the X11 config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf: Section "InputClass" Identifier "KeyboardDefaults" Driver…
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Switching keyboard layouts

END GOAL I use Arch Linux with bspwm as my window manager and sxhkd as a hotkey daemon. I want to map a certain key combination in my sxhkdrc so that it shuffles through different keyboard layouts. For example: # Shuffle through keyboard…
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xdotool not working with sxhkd?

ctrl + 2 xdotool type Test Message Added the above line to sxhkdrc with no effect. Using different commands works, but for some reason any xdotool command doesn't work... If i run that command in dmenu or terminal it works. man sxhkd says the…
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Setting a keyboard shortcut to interactively select a screenshot (sxhkd/scrot)

I would like to add a keyboard shortcut using sxhkd let me select a region of my desktop to screenshot using scrot. This should be accomplished by adding this section to my sxhkd file, ctrl + alt + x scrot --select but this doesn't work. The…
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How to remap a combination of buttons clicks to run a script

I'm running BSPWM as my tiling window manager, and SXHKD as my mapping tool. And i want to kill the current window when i click a combination of: button1 + button1 + button3 (double left click + right click). I tried adding this to my sxhkd…
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