[HN Gopher] Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, Ported to Zig
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       Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, Ported to Zig
        
       Author : xanthor
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2025-10-03 17:18 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | Carrok wrote:
       | I use skhd with yabai and custom layers on my keyboard for
       | mouseless window management. It's worked great until a recent
       | update, I'll try this out and see if it fixes things. Thanks!
        
       | tomcam wrote:
       | Hotkey Demon needs to be the title of a Korean anime
        
       | akulbe wrote:
       | Does this do something like TextExpander and Keyboard Maestro? is
       | that the general idea?
       | 
       | The one thing I really can't stand about macOS is "Secure Input".
       | It won't let you use something like TE or KM to input a password.
       | You're forced to copy and paste.
       | 
       | As far as I understand, you can't disable that feature either...
       | because securiteh! :/
        
       | kbd wrote:
       | I wonder how much of my Hammerspoon config I could replace with
       | this...
       | 
       | Edit: upon reflection, not much actually:
       | https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/2eaeaecf76c22be3ecef5c8563...
        
         | james2doyle wrote:
         | Yeah hammerspoon seems a lot more capable.
         | 
         | I wrote two articles on using global hotkeys with hammerspoon:
         | 
         | https://ohdoylerules.com/tricks/hammerspoon-hyper-key/
         | https://ohdoylerules.com/tricks/hammerspoon-number-pad-short...
         | 
         | One think you can even do is detect which devices are being
         | used and handle shortcuts differently. You can write a full on
         | workflow that can be triggered with a keyboard shortcut if
         | you're using hammerspoon.
         | 
         | I recently switched from a homecooked keyboard "expansion"
         | plugin to using Espanso but it can do that as well!
        
       | bhaney wrote:
       | Minor curiosity: Why is "(S)imple (H)ot(K)ey (D)aemon"
       | abbreviated as "SKHD" and not "SHKD"?
       | 
       | Edit: Found this answer from the author of the non-zig version,
       | though it doesn't actually explain much
       | https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd/issues/151
        
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