NAME¶

inputplug - XInput event monitor

SYNOPSIS¶

inputplug [-v] [-n] [-d] [-0] -c command-prefix

inputplug [-h|--help]

DESCRIPTION¶

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:

command-prefix event-type device-id device-type device-name

Event type may be one of the following:

• XIMasterAdded
• XIMasterRemoved
• XISlaveAdded
• XISlaveRemoved
• XISlaveAttached
• XISlaveDetached
• XIDeviceEnabled
• XIDeviceDisabled

Device type may be any of those:

• XIMasterPointer
• XIMasterKeyboard
• XISlavePointer
• XISlaveKeyboard
• XIFloatingSlave

Device identifier is an integer. The device name may have embedded spaces.

OPTIONS¶

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

ENVIRONMENT¶

DISPLAY

X11 display to connect to.

SEE ALSO¶

xinput(1)

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021 Andrej Shadura.

Copyright (C) 2014, 2020 Vincent Bernat.

Licensed as MIT/X11.

AUTHOR¶

Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>