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NAME

       xkbevd - XKB event daemon

SYNOPSIS

       xkbevd [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

       This  command  is  very	raw and is therefore only partially implemented;  we present it here as a rough prototype for developers, not as a
       general purpose tool for end users.  Something like this might make a suitable replacement for xev;  I'm not signing up, mind you, but it's
       an interesting idea.

       The  xkbevd  event daemon listens for specified XKB events and executes requested commands if they occur.   The configuration file consists
       of a list of event specification/action pairs and/or variable definitions.

       An event specification consists of a short XKB event name followed by a string or identifier which serves as a  qualifier  in  parentheses;
       empty  parenthesis  indicate no qualification and serve to specify the default command which is applied to events which do not match any of
       the other specifications.  The interpretation of the qualifier depends on the type of the event:  Bell events match using the name  of  the
       bell,  message events match on the contents of the message string and slow key events accept any of press, release, accept, or reject.	No
       other events are currently recognized.

       An action consists of an optional keyword followed by an optional string argument.  Currently, xkbev recognizes the actions: none,  ignore,
       echo, printEvent, sound, and shell.  If the action is not specified, the string is taken as the name of a sound file to be played unless it
       begins with an exclamation point, in which case it is taken as a shell command.

       Variable definitions in the argument string are expanded with fields from the event in question before the argument string is passed to the
       action  processor.    The general syntax for a variable is either $cP or $(str), where c is a single character and str is a string of arbi-
       trary length.  All parameters have both single-character and long names.

       The list of recognized parameters varies from event to event and is too long to list here right now.   This is a developer release  anyway,
       so you can be expected to look at the source code (evargs.c is of particular interest).

       The ignore, echo, printEvent, sound,and shell actions do what you would expect commands named ignore, echo, printEvent, sound, and shell to
       do, except that the sound command has only been implemented and tested for SGI machines.   It launches an external program right now, so it
       should be pretty easy to adapt, especially if you like audio cues that arrive about a half-second after you expect them.

       The only currently recognized variables are soundDirectory and soundCmd.  I'm sure you can figure out what they do.

OPTIONS

       -help   Prints a usage message that is far more up-to-date than anything in this man page.

       -cfg file
	       Specifies  the  configuration  file  to read.   If no configuration file is specified, xkbevd looks for ~/.xkb/xkbevd.cf and $(LIB-
	       DIR)/xkb/xkbevd.cf in that order.

       -sc cmd Specifies the command used to play sounds.

       -sd directory
	       Specifies a top-level directory for sound files.

       -display display
	       Specifies the display to use.  If not present, xkbevd uses $DISPLAY.

       -bg     Tells xkbevd to fork itself (and run in the background).

       -synch  Forces synchronization of all X requests.  Slow.

       -v      Print more information, including debugging messages.   Multiple specifications of -v cause more output, to a point.

SEE ALSO

       X(7)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1995, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Copyright 1995, 1998  The Open Group
       See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHOR

       Erik Fortune, Silicon Graphics

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