How To Install triggerhappy on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install triggerhappy on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install triggerhappy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install triggerhappyInstall triggerhappy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install triggerhappy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install triggerhappyInstall triggerhappy Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install triggerhappy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install triggerhappyHow To Uninstall triggerhappy on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the triggerhappy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove triggerhappyUninstall triggerhappy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall triggerhappy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove triggerhappyRemove triggerhappy Configurations and Data
To remove triggerhappy configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge triggerhappyRemove 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 triggerhappyDependencies
triggerhappy have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install triggerhappy package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
