home-manager/modules/services/xcape.nix

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

with lib;

let

  cfg = config.services.xcape;

in

{
  meta.maintainers = [ maintainers.nickhu ];

  options = {
    services.xcape = {
      enable = mkEnableOption "xcape";

      timeout = mkOption {
        type = types.nullOr types.int;
        default = null;
        example = 500;
        description = ''
          If you hold a key longer than this timeout, xcape will not
          generate a key event. Default is 500 ms.
        '';
      };

      mapExpression = mkOption {
        type = types.attrsOf types.str;
        default = {};
        example = { Shift_L = "Escape"; Control_L = "Control_L|O"; };
        description = ''
          The value has the grammar <literal>Key[|OtherKey]</literal>.
          </para>
          <para>
          The list of key names is found in the header file
          <filename>X11/keysymdef.h</filename> (remove the
          <literal>XK_</literal> prefix). Note that due to limitations
          of X11 shifted keys must be specified as a shift key
          followed by the key to be pressed rather than the actual
          name of the character. For example to generate "{" the
          expression <literal>Shift_L|bracketleft</literal> could be
          used (assuming that you have a key with "{" above "[").
          </para>
          <para>
          You can also specify keys in decimal (prefix #), octal (#0),
          or hexadecimal (#0x). They will be interpreted as keycodes
          unless no corresponding key name is found.
        '';
      };
    };
  };

  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
    systemd.user.services.xcape = {
      Unit = {
        Description = "xcape";
        After = [ "graphical-session-pre.target" ];
        PartOf = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
      };

      Service = {
        Type = "forking";
        ExecStart = "${pkgs.xcape}/bin/xcape"
          + optionalString (cfg.timeout != null) " -t ${toString cfg.timeout}"
          + optionalString (cfg.mapExpression != {})
            " -e '${builtins.concatStringsSep ";"
              (attrsets.mapAttrsToList (n: v: "${n}=${v}") cfg.mapExpression)}'";
      };

      Install = {
        WantedBy = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
      };
    };
  };
}