i3-quick-bind

Temporarily bind a shell command to a hotkey

Usage:

• Edit your i3 config to bind any keys you want to use to no-ops. For example for alt + a you would add the line bindsym Mod1+a nop.
• Launch i3-quick-bind from the terminal, like i3-quick-bind Mod1+a 'ls -la | grep *.png'. This will start the i3-quick-bind process which waits for messages from i3. Whenever the key combo is pressed it should spawn an sh child process that in this case interprets ls -la | grep *.png, which writes the output in the same terminal that i3-quick-bind was invoked from.