DEPRECATED: This project has been deprecated by https://github.com/qzed/linux-surface-dtx-daemon/. Development will continue there.
Linux User-Space Detachment System (DTX) Daemon for the Surface ACPI Driver (and Surface Book 2).
This daemon allows proper clipboard detachment on the Surface Book 2. It allows you to run commands before the clipboard is unlocked, after it has been re-attached, or when the unlocking-process has been aborted (e.g. by pressing the detach-button a second time). This daemon also provides desktop-notifications to indicate when the clipboard can be physically removed from the base and when the re-attachmend process has been completed.
If you have an Arch Linux or Debian based distributions, have a look at the releases page for official packages.
After installation you may want to enable the systemd service using systemctl enable surface-dtx.service.
Alternatively, you can build these packages yourself, using the provided PKGBUILD (Arch Linux) or make-debpkg script in the respective pkg sub-directories.
If you don't find a package for your distribution (or want to create a package for it), you can also install this daemon via make install (and uninstall it via make uninstall, an optional DESTDIR=... is supported).
As this bypasses the package-manager, this way of installation is not recommended.
The main configuration files can be found under /etc/surface-dtx/surface-dtx.cfg.
Here you can specify the handler-scripts for supported events and other options.
All options are explanined in this file, the configuration language is TOML.