How To Install triggerhappy on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install triggerhappy
on Debian 10.
What is triggerhappy
triggerhappy is:
Triggerhappy watches connected input devices for certain key presses or other input events and runs administrator-configured commands when they occur. Unlike other hotkey daemons, it runs as a persistent, systemwide service and therefore can be used even outside the context of a user or X11 session.
It can handle a wide variety of devices (keyboards, joysticks, wiimote, etc.), as long as they are presented by the kernel as generic input devices. No kernel patch is required. The daemon is a userspace program that polls the /dev/input/event? interfaces for incoming key, button and switch events. A single daemon can monitor multiple input devices and can dynamically add additional ones. Hotkey handlers can be assigned to dedicated (tagged) devices or globally.
For example, this package might be useful on a headless system to use input events generated by a remote control to control an mpd server, but can also be used to allow the adjustment of audio and network status on a notebook without relying on user specific configuration.
Key combinations are supported as well as the hotplugging of devices using a udev hotplug script; the running daemon can also be influenced by a client program, e.g. to temporarily pause the processing of events or switch to a different set of hotkey bindings.
There are three methods to install triggerhappy
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install triggerhappy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install triggerhappy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install triggerhappy
Install triggerhappy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install triggerhappy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install triggerhappy
Install triggerhappy Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install triggerhappy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install triggerhappy
How To Uninstall triggerhappy on Debian 10
To uninstall only the triggerhappy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove triggerhappy
Uninstall triggerhappy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall triggerhappy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove triggerhappy
Remove triggerhappy Configurations and Data
To remove triggerhappy
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge triggerhappy
Remove triggerhappy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove triggerhappy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge triggerhappy
Dependencies
triggerhappy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install triggerhappy
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.