shortcutd

Global shortcuts using evdev

What

shortcutd is a daemon and client library to allow listening for global shortcuts for systems that don't support it otherwise (such as wayland).

The shortcutd daemon hooks into the evdev system and exposes a dbus interface for clients to hook into to. By separating out the code that hooks into evdev (which needs to be done as root) into a separate daemon it allows non-privileged users to hook into global shortcuts.

Protection against clients using the shortcutd daemon for a keylogger is done by only allowing 3 shortcuts without modifiers to be registered at the same time.

Starting the daemon

Rust api

```rust use futures::{pin_mut, StreamExt}; use shortcutd::{Shortcut, ShortcutClient}; use std::error::Error;

[tokio::main]

async fn main() -> Result<(), Box> { let client = ShortcutClient::new().await?;

let shortcut: Shortcut = "<Ctrl><Alt>-KeyO".parse()?;

let stream = client.listen(shortcut).await?;

pin_mut!(stream);

while let Some(event) = stream.next().await {
  println!("{} {}", event.shortcut, event.state);
}
Ok(())

}

```

D-Bus api