Keylogger but funnier
Keydogger is a tiny text expander written in C
wl-clipboardgccmake
git clone https://github.com/jarusll/keydogger.git
cd keydoggerConfigure KEYBOARD_EVENT_PATH in Makefile.
It should be of the pattern /dev/input/eventX. X will be different for your system. You can use evtest to find out your keyboard device path.
To install, run the following as sudo
make clean installYou can test out sample expansions from the local keydoggerrc file by
make clean build
sudo ./keydogger debugSet trigger and expansion values in ~/keydoggerrc. Expansion definitions follow the format trigger=expansion.
Here are some sample expansions you might like
@hello=Hello, World!
@program=Keydogger
:love:=❤️
@gg=Good game folks, see you tomorrow
@@[email protected]
:ai=explain in short and simple terms
@install=sudo package-manager install -y
@update=sudo package-manager update -y
@restart=sudo keydogger stop && sudo keydogger start
@backup=rsync -avz ~/important_files/ jarusll@homeserver:backups/
sudo keydogger startsudo keydogger statussudo keydogger stop- emisilve86 for their code
- Espanso for the
1000microseconds of delay between events - ydotool for direct mapping of
character codetoLinux key code
- Daemonize it
- Use
/dev/uinputto emit events - Read trigger & expansions from
.keydoggerrc
- Unicode support