/* * File: status.c * Location: https://bgstack15.ddns.net/cgit/keyboard-leds-trayicons/ * Author: bgstack15 * Startdate: 2022-09-28-4 13:30 * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0 * Title: Proof of Concept C utility for polling capslock and numlock * Purpose: Demonstrate these can be done in C, with the eventual goal of rewriting keyboard-leds-trayicons entirely in C to avoid the "sleep 0.75" in ps output * History: * Usage: * References: * https://github.com/Cairo-Dock/cairo-dock-plug-ins/blob/master/keyboard-indicator/src/applet-xklavier.c#L124 * https://github.com/oco2000/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/blob/fe753d9d0f8a720a35a32f5f556b8fbead798d20/panel-plugin/xkbleds.c * Improvements: * Write main keyboard-led-trayicons logic, which includes parsing config file (libconfig?) * Write pipe connectivity to mktrayicon or integrate it entirely * Dependencies: libx11-dev */ #include #include #include Display* dpy; int get_indicator(Display* dpy, char* indicator) { // where indicator is one of ["Num Lock", "Caps Lock"] Atom lockIndicator = XInternAtom(dpy, indicator, False); int st; XkbGetNamedIndicator(dpy, lockIndicator, NULL, &st, NULL, NULL); return st; } int main() { dpy = XOpenDisplay( NULL ); int status_capslock = get_indicator(dpy, "Caps Lock"); int status_numlock = get_indicator(dpy, "Num Lock"); printf("Capslock: %d\tNumlock: %d\n",status_capslock,status_numlock); printf("done\n"); return 0; }