Add keybind event to socket2.

[aspizu]

Description

Add a way for keybinds to trigger events in socket2.
Currently, hyprland-py achieves this by implementing our own socket.

Configuration:

bind=SUPER,E,custom_event,my_event

[MightyPlaza]

can't this be done with the plugin system?

[vaxerski]

can be but this is a fair core feat

[anderso]

I second this. I imagine a new dispatcher named event, which enables me to do this for example:

bind=SUPER,M,event,focusmain
bind=SUPER,1,event,focusother1
bind=SUPER,2,event,focusother2

so that pressing SUPER+M would for example trigger an event like this:

dispatchevent>>focusmain

And I could implement my custom focus logic in my own process. The alternative I guess is using exec and some custom IPC, but this would be much simpler and avoid the overhead of spawning a processes for each key press. Maybe you also should be able to set the event name? Maybe enable you to leave out the data to send, and then instead send some representation of the bind that triggered the event and you can parse it in your own process?

[3333juul]

any updates on this fr? I think it wouldn't be hard to implement and it's a pretty useful feature

[vaxerski]

I can do it