Hoton

Hoton is a simple HOvering butTON. It is by default hidden in systray and when shown it has a single window showing one icon which can be moved by mouse and when clicked sends given key-combination into focused window.

An example usage is a floating undo button for touchscreens.

Configuration

Copy the default configuration files hoton.toml and hoton.css into ~/.config/

cp hoton.toml hoton.css ~/.config/

And edit it to your needs. The file hoton.toml has the folowing options

Option	Description
command	the key combination run on click. It is directly passed into xdotool key --clearmodifiers COMMAND
width	width of the window
height	height of the window
icon	shown icon, usualy available icons are located in /usr/share/icons/
icon-size	size of the icon