Hawck Files

Hawck version 0.7

Changes from 0.6

• Added Arch AUR package
• Added killswitch (Escape+Space)
• More notifications
  • Scripts are loaded
  • Scripts are unloaded
  • Scripts cannot be loaded due to wrong permissions
  • Scripts cannot be loaded due to syntax errors
• Hawck listens on all available keyboards automatically
• Unless hawck-inputd is explicitly started with --kbd-device arguments it will default to listening to any keyboard available, which means hotplugging now works even if you didn't explicitly start inputd on that keyboard.
• Removed many C-isms in the code
• Build and install scripts compatible with packaging tools
  • In v0.6 Hawck was installed using a Rube Goldberg mess of shell scripts tied together by the install.sh script (which was trying to be a one-click install program.)
• Deprecated the GUI
• Deprecated lsinput in favour of lskbd.rb
  • The older lsinput program used ioctl calls, while the newer lsbdk.rs script reads from sysfs, which is both world-readable, and much faster than doing repeated ioctl() calls on many different devices.
• Now primarily targetting Arch/Manjaro
• Type-checking for Lua userdata
  • which means that doing weird things like kbd.emit(file) (passing file as self argument to a kbd method) no longer results in UB.
• Bug-fixes in FSWatcher (inotify C++ wrapper)
• Simplified pedantic file checks
• Extract sysfs information about keyboard devices
• Added timeouts for scripts
• This is helpful if you accidentally write an infinite loop in one of your scripts.
• Fixed pid-file management
• Fixed Lua stack overflow bug
  • This fix has been backported to v0.6, as v0.6.1 (find it under GitHub releases.)
• Added fromkbd() conditional
  • This means you can write macros that are only active for a specific keyboard. Take that Tom Scott (only, uh... several years later)
• Various new LuaUtils features.
• This lays the ground-work for running scripts inside hawck-inputd, which is planned for v1.0.
• macrod will now kill any other macrod processes on startup
• Added more code documentation.
• Removed Gtk/GObject dependencies
  • They aren't needed for the kind of fire-and-forget desktop notifications that hawck-macrod emits.