execute commands in the middle of a keychord

[savolla]

Hello, first of all thanks a lot for creating sxhkd. I have a project in mind for implementing keychords but also showing hints using notify-send in the middle of a keychord. I want it to act like which-key in spacemacs/doom emacs. To be clear I'll share my example config. but it doesn't work

alt + space;
    notify-send "h: help, s: screenshot, l: launch, "

alt + space; h;
    zathura ~/resource/notes/org/savolla-keybindings.pdf

alt + space; s;
    flameshot gui

alt + space; l;
    notify-send "f: firefox, l: librewolf, c: chrome"

alt + space; l; f;
    firefox
alt + space; l; l;
    librewolf
alt + space; l; c;
    chrome

I hope you understand what I'm trying to do. I already read the man page but couldn't find anything related to this. or I'm just missing something.

[shinyzero00]

well, my kind of alternative to this nvim/emacs which-key/hydra uses rofi. As long as you have only key bindings without modifiers, you can do. The idea is prefilling input with a regex matching prefix, enabling auto-select and making every line contain a key binding at the beginning. That will output the line as soon as you press a key and you do whatever you need with it.

printf '%s\t%s\n' f firefox c chrome |
exec $(rofi -dmenu \
	-auto-select \
	-matching regex \
	-filter '^'|
cut -f 2)

like that, haven't tested, but you get the idea