---
name: "wmiikeys"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wmii2"
version: "2.5.2-11"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wmiikeys"
---

# wmiikeys(1)

window manager improved 2 keys

## NAME

wmiikeys - window manager improved 2 keys

## SYNOPSIS

**wmiikeys** **-s** *socketfile*

## DESCRIPTION

### Overview

**wmiikeys** is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient key grabbing utility for the X Window System, originally designed for [**wmii**(1)](/wmii/1.md). It is similar to xbindkeys, but provides more flexibility and comes with equivalent features like the ratpoison keyboard control allows. It supports arbitrary, user defined shortcuts which are bound to arbitrary actions. Like wmii, **wmiikeys** also implements a socket-based fileserver, which is accessed to configure and interact with other components.

### Options

- **-s** *socketfile*

  specifies the socketfile that **wmiikeys** should create.

- **-v**

  prints version information to stderr, then exits.

### Customization

**wmiikeys** is customized through manipulating its filesystem namespace. In the default setup of [**wmii**(1)](/wmii/1.md) the namespace of **wmiikeys** can be found in /keys.

## SEE ALSO

[**wmii**(1)](/wmii/1.md), [**wmiibar**(1)](/wmiibar/1.md), [**wmiifs**(1)](/wmiifs/1.md), [**wmiimenu**(1)](/wmiimenu/1.md), [**wmiir**(1)](/wmiir/1.md), [**wmiiwm**(1)](/wmiiwm/1.md)