whkd

A simple hotkey daemon for Windows (by LGUG2Z)

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  • WSL and Vim development setup
    3 projects | /r/vim | 10 Jun 2023
    in powertoys, find a feature called “keyboard manager”. if you want to go deep into keymapping in windows, checkout autohotkey and whkd
  • Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023
    It was only when I started writing my own sxhkd-inspired hotkey daemon[1] for Windows that I really started to appreciate just how _good_ AHK is. Even just for hotkey binding, AHK does some incredibly clever stuff very transparently to provide for such an excellent end-user experience. For example, using system hooks automatically when the user tries to bind a hotkey combination that is reserved by the system (usually win+something) is implemented so well. Really excellent software and I miss it when I'm using Linux or macOS.

    [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd

  • AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2023
    I ended up using AHK for komorebi[1] because I was still new to Windows when I start writing it and I didn't wanna have to write a tiling window manager AND a hotkey daemon. I even ended up generating a nice little AHK library to wrap around CLI commands that sent socket messages to the window manager to make it easier to write a configuration.

    Ultimately the syntax changes make it impossible to fully reproduce the same library for AHKv2, which is being installed by default on all mainstream package managers now.

    I ended up biting the bullet and making my own hotkey daemon[2] for use with komorebi based on skhd[3] and I haven't looked back since. This will be the "blessed" hotkey daemon recommended for use in the next release of komorebi.

    I'm still using AHK (v1) for the stuff that it's good at (and there is a lot of stuff that it's good at!), but ultimately I've found that it's not the right tool as a hotkey daemon for a socket-based tiling window manager.

    [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

    [2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd

    [3]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

  • Show HN: Whkd – A simple hotkey daemon for Windows
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2023
  • whkd: A simple hotkey daemon for Windows
    6 projects | /r/rust | 21 Jan 2023
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LGUG2Z/whkd is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of whkd is Rust.


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