feat: Toggle voice status using fifo pipe

[PolisanTheEasyNick]

This PR adds not bad way for implementing basic keybinding for toggling mute and deaf statuses.

How it works?

This PR creates pipe file at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/vesktop-ipc which listens for strings VCD_TOGGLE_SELF_MUTE and VCD_TOGGLE_SELF_DEAF and performs actions if this data is transfered to pipe.
So with this if anywhere in the system you execute echo "VCD_TOGGLE_SELF_MUTE" >> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/vesktop-ipc then it will toggle mute. echo "VCD_TOGGLE_SELF_DEAF" >> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/vesktop-ipc will toggle self deafness.

How we can use it?

For example, in KDE systems, we can add custom keybinds which will execute a given command with needed signal:

I think in other DEs there must be ways to do similar actions.
If it will be merged, I think we must write these instructions into README.
This solution is really temporary and in future we must move to some native solutions for keybindings.

[Vendicated]

this doesn't really work still. the first command works, but then runs into

Failed to mkfifo /run/user/1000/vesktop-ipc while initializing vesktop-ipc: Error: Command failed: mkfifo /run/user/1000/vesktop-ipc
mkfifo: cannot create fifo '/run/user/1000/vesktop-ipc': File exists

[PolisanTheEasyNick]

Didn't have this issue, but now before creating a pipe file it checks whether it exists, if so removes the file and recreates. Also, it must now remove the file if Vesktop is closed.

[hollowstrawberry]

Works great for me.

[minchingtonak]

Hi there, thanks for creating this feature. I'm using it now and it works nicely. I did have to patch the implementation to allow non-wayland display servers though.

I'm curious, is there a reason the keybinds are only enabled on wayland? It seems to be working fine and I'm running X11.

[JoshIce]

Hey just wanted to say this is working great! Hoping we can get this or some other solution merged into main soon!

[CookieUniverse]

I don't really know if its my problem but when run echo "VCD_TOGGLE_SELF_MUTE" >> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/vesktop-ipc it just hangs the console and nothing happens.
Using the latest Nobara Linux with wayland and nvidia drivers if that matters.

[PolisanTheEasyNick]

I don't really know if its my problem but when run echo "VCD_TOGGLE_SELF_MUTE" >> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/vesktop-ipc it just hangs the console and nothing happens. Using the latest Nobara Linux with wayland and nvidia drivers if that matters.

Please show output of echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and ls -la $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

[CookieUniverse]

I don't really know if its my problem but when run echo "VCD_TOGGLE_SELF_MUTE" >> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/vesktop-ipc it just hangs the console and nothing happens. Using the latest Nobara Linux with wayland and nvidia drivers if that matters.

Please show output of echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and ls -la $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

[PolisanTheEasyNick]

Looks like no problem with pipe creation.
Which terminal shell do you use? Is it bash?
Please answer in PM discord: ob3r0n for not spamming here with support topic

[CookieUniverse]

turns out my problem wasn't related to this. this works!

[ilobilo]

Hi is this getting merged any time soon?

[PolisanTheEasyNick]

Hi is this getting merged any time soon?

I don't believe so, this PR is desired for other users who needs that feature.

[ilobilo]

do I need to build it myself to use it?

[minchingtonak]

do I need to build it myself to use it?

Yes. Use the instructions here, make sure to check out this branch right after cloning (git switch keybinds).