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Keyboard Shortcuts Remapping Application for Linux.

Student: Anyurov Andrey

Supervisor: Sergey Makarov

Faculty: Faculty of Computer Science

Educational Programme: Software Engineering (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2020

Nowadays, as Linux popularity is rising for desktop users the total amount of applications, daemons and utilities written for Linux is increasing as well. Therefore, even beginner users have a need to configure a large number of applications, execute a lot of different commands and invoke scripts in their daily routine. In addition, certain users struggle with inconsistencies between their typing habits, keyboards, and low-level system configuration files, which leads to unproductive workflow. This paper proposes the project of an application that helps its users to construct a more coherent workflow through introduction an environment that allows remapping of key chord sequences into necessary actions and execute code written in the embedded scripting language. The tasks of the work are: 1. Designing the embedded scripting language that can be used by the users for the configuration of their workflow; 2. Designing and development of the interpreter of the embedded scripting language; 3. Designing and development of the standard library of the embedded scripting language; 4. Designing the communication protocol between server and console and graphical clients; 5. Designing and development of the server part of the application; 6. Designing and development of the console client; 7. Designing and development of the graphical client; 8. Publication of the application. Keywords – keyboard remapping, combinatory parsing, code interpretation, automation, evdev, Lisp, Linux. The paper contains 74 pages, 3 chapters, 19 references, five appendices, 25 listings, 10 illustrations, 6 tables.

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