This patch makes simple macros of the form `<mods>-<key>` less noisy by
avoiding the redundant release/depression of modifiers which are already
active. This used to be the default behaviour prior to 2.3.0-rc, but was
changed to accommodate #128 (among other things). In most cases the
additional noise is transparent to the application, but notably breaks
Gnome tab-switching via swap, since Gnome cares about intermediate
modifier state.
Currently composite layers will be activated in the order in which they
are defined which can cause shorter sequences to take precedence over
longer ones. This patch ensures the longest composite sequence always
takes precedence.
The stock XCompose file which ships with most distros isn't exhaustive
and uses a number of layout specific keysyms intended to be easy to
memorize (rather than globally accessible). To circumvent this problem
we ship our own set of simplified compose definitions.
This patch passively monitors mouse events and passes them
through to the active keyboard in order to facilitate
clearing oneshot modifiers on click.
A byproduct of this is an increase the number of spurious wakeups
(caused by mouse movement since we can't exclusively monitor click
events) , but this seems to have an minimal performance impact
in practice.
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.
Some applications make use of the alt (e.g firefox) and meta (e.g gnome)
keys in isolation. Thus it is necessary to interpose additional events
to prevent the likes of '<alt down> <alt up>' from being interpreted as
key presses.
E.G
[alt]
a = x
will currently cause 'alt+a' to produce:
<alt down>
<alt up>
<x down>
<x up>
In most cases this is identical to '<x>', however in some contexts the
additional alt keypress is meaningful.
To prevent this, we intelligently emit '<alt>+<control>' instead by sandwiching the
'<alt up>' event like so: '<control down> <alt up> <control up>'
The full sequence thus becomes:
<alt down>
<control down>
<alt up>
<control up>
<x down>
<x up>
e.g
alt = layer(A) -> alt = layer(alt)
Additionally, left hand modifier names are shorthand
for both associated keycodes as opposed to just
the left one.
e.g:
control = esc
is equivalent to:
leftcontrol = esc
rightcontrol = esc
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