toggle active on hotkey down, deactivate on hotkey up

[ElijahLynn]

How can I activate only on keypress down?

[bk138]

Hi! You activate via the hotkey, as stated in the docs. Or am I misunderstanding you?

[ElijahLynn]

I mean only activate on keypress down, and then when it is released it is deactivated. Like a temporary toggle.

[bk138]

That's not possible with the current code but can be changed.

[ElijahLynn]

Thanks for clarifying. Fyi, my underlying goal is to get back to what Compiz Annotate did, which was just activate on a keypress down. I think this would be a useful addition!

I am open to coding this or helping code it if this will take a lot of time.

[bk138]

Feel free to provide a PR :-)

[ElijahLynn]

@bk138 thanks, if I am going to undertake this some simple guidance on what parts to look at would greatly speed this up as I am new to this type of development and am mostly a web developer (PHP, JavaScript, Ansible etc).

[bk138]

Here

gromit-mpx/src/input.c

Line 341 in 017c4f4

gint snoop_key_press(GtkWidget *grab_widget,

the hotkeys are handled and as you can see, a key down event is handled to toggle stuff.

[ElijahLynn]

Thanks, I'll plan on tackling this in the near future, and ask follow up questions here or open a WIP PR.

[bk138]

General update: issues with Gromit-MPX can now be funded at https://issuehunt.io/r/bk138/gromit-mpx