[Haskell-cafe] How to create a background program that monitors input (linux)

[EatsKittens]

Essentially, I want to create a program that is simply ran in the
background, not in a terminal, that monitors keypresses and mouse presses
and takes certain actions on specific keypresses. Where to start?
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