inputconfd is a basic daemon that monitors udev events for new keyboard or mouse devices and automatically runs a command to configure them. For example, I use it as follows in my ~/.xinitrc:

inputconfd --keyboard="xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap; xset r rate 150 50 -b" &

The commands passed to the --keyboard and --mouse options are passed to the shell, so they can be arbitrarily complicated. Both commands will be run upon starting the daemon and again any time an applicable device is added. If a command fails, a message will be printed but the daemon will continue running.

inputconfd has the following dependencies:

• libudev

The installation path and compilation flags can be tweaked by editing config.mk. Then, run the usual

make
make install