Welcome to Keyboard Control Panel, or KeyCoP

This program turns your second keyboard into your personal physical control panel. It intercepts all events from specified device(s) and lets me program it to whatever I might want.

Currently it allows me to switch between my virtual desktops.

Additionally it will run executables at '~/.config/keycop/bind/just/' provided that they're there and execute permissions are set. For instance, to trigger system reboot upon pressing key [,] ("comma") make a symbolic link to your reboot binary as such:

ln -s $(which reboot) ~/.config/keycop/bind/just/comma

More generally you can put any executable there, and it will spawn asynchronously and will share the stdin, stdout and stderr with the keycop process

Requires x11-devel (Fedora) or equivalent XOrg headers. Requires libxdo-devel (Fedora) or equivalend libxdo headers.

To run this with full functionality you need to:

• add your user to "input" group (Fedora) or whichever group grants you read permissions on /dev/input/event* files
• have a second keyboard plugged in
• change the id string of keyboard to your keyboard
• run compiz window decorator with both "Expo" and "D-Bus" plugins enabled
• have virtual desktops configured in a grid (currently hardcoded 2 rows by 3 columns)
• run the program, and keep it running

• make keyboard identifier configurable
• add more functionality!
• add GUI configurator