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ngoonee

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[light-locker etc] Any way to pass-through keys for sxhkd (or similar)

So when my laptop screen turns off (DPMS or otherwise) light-locker activates. This means shortcut keys don't. Meaning I have to unlock the laptop if I want to change the volume or control mpd (which I do through sxhkd keyboard shortcuts).

Of course, the purpose of a lockscreen is to LOCK the screen, which includes the keyboard, but is there a way to pass-through some keys?

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Re: [light-locker etc] Any way to pass-through keys for sxhkd (or similar)

Not that I know of, unless it involves modifying the light-locker source. A simple workaround is to use acpid for your volume keys. If you use pulseaudio, you may have to use a small shell script from your user.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … me_control
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … pid_socket

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

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Re: [light-locker etc] Any way to pass-through keys for sxhkd (or similar)

Thanks Alad, but that would require me to repurpose special function keys rather than the key chords I already use (muscle memory etc).

I've already tested it and indeed the keys are detected even in lockscreen. If I cannot find a better method I may just have to go with this. My laptop does have multimedia keys but they're not what I normally use because I prefer single-handed key chords and, of course, the Fn key is on the left while all the multimedia keys are on the right.

Although I wonder if I could use hwdb to remap my preferred keys to make them look like multimedia keys... that's next on the to-do list then.

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