polybar-enableKeyboard

A simple script for whether to enable the keyboard

(My mother tongue is not English. If I make any grammatical or vocabulary mistakes, please forgive me)

Polybar enable-keyboard

A simple polybar-enableKeyboard module that adds an icon that changes dinamically accordingly to thte keyboard status

When the keyboard is on

When the keyboard is off

Dependencies

• xinput
• Font Awesome 6 Free

Installation

Need to change script:

in keyboardenable.sh

#!/bin/env bash
# find this id 
id=$(xinput | grep "Asus Keyboard .* (3)]" | grep -Po 'id=\K\d+')
# find device status
device_enable=$(xinput list-props $id | grep 'Device Enabled' | grep -Eo '(0|1)$')

if [ $device_enable -eq 1 ]; then
  xinput disable $id
else
  xinput enable $id
fi

in keyboard.sh

#!/bin/env bash
 id=$(xinput | grep "Asus Keyboard .* (3)]" | grep -Po 'id=\K\d+')
 device_enable=$(xinput list-props $id | grep 'Device Enabled' | grep -Eo '(0|1)$')
 if [ $device_enable -eq 1 ]; then
   echo "%{F#42A5F5}"
 else
   echo "%{F#2e317c}"
 fi

Asus Keyboard is my computer keyboard

If you want to know your computer keyboard, you can do:

> xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ASUE120A:00 04F3:319B Mouse             	id=11	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ASUE120A:00 04F3:319B Touchpad          	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Asus Keyboard                           	id=14	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech G304                           	id=16	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Asus Wireless Radio Control             	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Topre Corporation HHKB Professional     	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys                        	id=13	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Asus Keyboard                           	id=15	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Logitech G304   

we can find Asus Keyboard in Virtual core keyboard

we replaced Asus Keyboard for your Device

Place the shell script files in your preferred sctipt directory.

Add the module to your polybar config file

[module/keyboardenable]
type = custom/script
exec = path/to/scripts/keyboard.sh
interval = 2
click-left = exec path/to/scripts/keyboardenable.sh
click-right = exec path/to/scripts/keyboardenable.sh