exoskelegram 0.1.0

An X11 key press/release catcher/sender wrapper with abstractions

exoskelegram is an X11 key press/release catcher/sender wrapper with abstractions. In a future release, in addition to being able to catch and send X key events from Python programs, exoskelegram will allow you to use simple config files to temporarily reprogram your entire keyboard — or just a part of it.

License

exoskelegram is free software under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (or any later version). This is version 0.1.0 of the program.

Contact

The author of exoskelegram is Niels Serup. Bug reports and suggestions should be sent to [e-mail] for the time being.

Installation

Dependencies

exoskelegram requires the X11 headers and the Xtst extension. If you’re using a package manager, remember to install the development packages (*-dev or *-devel or something similar).

Way #1

Get the newest version of exoskelegram at http://metanohi.name/projects/exoskelegram/ or at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/exoskelegram

Extract exoskelegram from the downloaded file, cd into it and run this in a terminal:

# python3 setup.py install

Examples are available in the examples directory.

Way #2

Just run this:

# pip-3.1 install exoskelegram

Note that this will not make any examples available.

Use

As a command-line tool

Run exoskelegram to use it. Run exoskelegram --help to see how to use it.

As a module

To find out how to use it, run:

$ pydoc3 exoskelegram.xkeylib

Examples

There are a few examples in the examples directory. None of them apply to the current few-features version.

Development

exoskelegram uses Git for code management. The newest (and perhaps unstable) code is available at:

$ git clone git://gitorious.org/exoskelegram/exoskelegram.git

This document

Copyright (C) 2011 Niels Serup

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