Add a new listen command which prints layer state changes in real time. This
makes it possible to write things like custom visual indicators.
E.G
$ keyd listen
Sample output:
+shift
-shift
+layer
-layer
...
Mostly plumbing.
Summary:
- Key processing logic remains untouched.
- Simplified IPC logic.
- Streamlined the event loop.
- Consolidated config and descriptor parsing logic into config.[ch].
- Eliminated internal KEYD_* environment variables in favour of compile time macros.
- Added color coding to the daemon output.
- Load all configuration files on initialization.
The last change increases initialization time (on the order of μs) and resident
memory size, but simplifies the config logic and has the benefit of linting all
files immediately while also allowing for the introduction of in-daemon
reloading. This ultimately results in a net saving for the user since
most service managers are horrendously slow :(.
It also means hotplugged devices will use the in-memory config set (which
probably makes more sense anyway) instead of dynamically scanning the config
directory. This is more efficient for small config directories (<100 files),
but less efficient for large ones (uncommon).
Tidy up the parsing logic and make everything valid c11
while we are at it :P.
The patch also eliminates the optional macro argument from swap(),
replacing it with a dedicated function (swap2()).
This breaks compatibility with a small number of configs,
but makes things more consistent.
This is a major release which breaks backward compatibility for
non-trivial configs. (we are still in beta after all :P).
In the absence of too much blowback this will probably become the final
v2 design.
Much of this harkens back to the v1, with some additional simplifications
and enhancements.
See DESIGN.md for a more detailed account.
Use EVIOCGKEY to obtain keystate of the underlying device instead of
exclusively relying on internal state + timeouts. The old approach was
racey and slow. This should improve start up/reload times and make
initialization less buggy.
- remove unnecessary cruft from struct config
- efficiently scan the config directory for matching
files on device detection.
- make keyboard->config the single source of truth
This should also speed up config reloading and reduce memory usage.
Constrain key codes to the range < 256 so they fit inside a single byte.
In theory individual evdev codes may exceed this but in practice most
keys seem to fit in this range, and it generally seems to be more
portable (e.g USB HID spec).
The mod mask has also been demoted to uint8_t since 16 bits was an
unreasonable size to begin with.
This should significantly reduce the memory footprint.
The end result should (hopefully) be a little more robust (and systemd independent).
I no longer remember what possessed me to switch away from the original
inotify implementation, but udev detection seems to have caused
enough grief to warrant switching back.
This will probably break FreeBSD support without some kind of
inotify glue and/or a kqueue implementation. If any FreeBSD
users see this feel free to open an issue or submit a PR :P.
keyd redux take 1.
A rewrite which simplifies the config format and provides a
solid foundation for incrementally introducing experimental
features.
Internally:
- Modularized and rewrote most of the code
- Added a mini testing framework (t/)
Externally:
- Eliminated layer inheritance in favour of simple types.
(layouts are now defined with `:layout` instead of `:main`)
- Macros are now repeatable.
- Overload now accepts a hold threshold timeout.
- Config files are now vendor/product id oriented.
- SIGUSR1 now triggers a config reload.
- Modifiers are layers by default and can be extended directly.
- Config files now end in `.conf`.
- `layert()` is now `toggle()`.
- All layers are 'modifier layers' (terminological change)
- Eliminated the dedicated modifer layout.
- Modifiers no longer apply to key sequences defined within a layer.
(Layer sequences are now always executed verbatim.)
The old behaviour was unintuitive and can be emulated using nested
layers if necessary.
Raheman Vaiya