BSD Ports

x11/keyboardcast 0.1.1_6 DragonFly

Broadcast keystrokes to multiple X windows for Gnome2

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
x11
Package size
17.2 KiB, 66.4 KiB installed

Description

The purpose of keyboardcast is to allow you to send keystrokes to multiple X windows at once. This allows you, for example, to control a number of terminals connected to different but similar hosts for purposes of mass- administration.

You can also select non-terminals. If you come up with a reasonable use for this ability I'd be interested in hearing about it.

The program can select windows to send to either by matching their titles (using a substring) or by clicking on them (in a method similar to GIMP's screenshot feature).

The program also features the ability to spawn off multiple instances of gnome-terminal executing a single command on multiple arguments (for example executing 'ssh' on several hosts). The gnome-terminals are invoked with the profile 'keyboardcast' if it exists (so, for example, your font size can be smaller).

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyx11/keyboardcast0.1.1_6
FreeBSDx11/keyboardcast0.1.1_7
HardenedBSDx11/keyboardcast0.1.1_7
GhostBSDx11/keyboardcast0.1.1_7

Install

Binary package:

pkg install keyboardcast

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/keyboardcast && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 15

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

keyboardcast requires /proc to be mounted!

See man procfs for more information.