inputplug is a very simple daemon which monitors XInput events and runs arbitrary scripts on hierarchy change events (such as a device being attached, removed, enabled or disabled).
To build the project, run cargo build.
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:
Event type may be one of the following:
Device type may be any of those:
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 andrewsh@debian.org