v0.7.1 - bugfix release

• A kernel update (presumably, not exactly sure) rendered Hawck unusable, as it would no longer be able to output keys. This has been fixed.
• hawck-inputd will now recover when the /dev/input/{by-path,by-id} directories don't exist

v0.7

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.

v0.6

Nothing new, just added the v0.6 tag.

Note: The UI seems to be broken in this version, on newer Linux distributions, see the following issue comments for using Hawck v0.6 without the UI (preferred method.):

• https://github.com/snyball/Hawck/issues/13#issuecomment-524439345
• https://github.com/snyball/Hawck/issues/15#issuecomment-537722167