Daily Deck

Turns an Elgato Stream Deck into a shortcut pad that follows you around: whenever another application gets the focus, the deck shows that application's shortcuts. Press a key, and the shortcut is sent – matching your keyboard layout.

• A profile per application – VS Code, browsers, terminal, file manager, mail, Spotify and a default profile come ready to use. More than 15 shortcuts? The last key turns the pages.
• One configuration for every system – primary is ⌘ on the Mac and Ctrl elsewhere, so a deck plugged into a monitor works the same with whichever computer is connected.
• Profile editor with live preview on the device, shortcut recording, built-in key symbols and profile import/export.
• App icon across the deck – flashes up on a switch, then shines through the keys.
• Linux, macOS and Windows, English and German (more welcome).

Works with the Stream Deck models supported by python-elgato-streamdeck; tested with the Stream Deck MK.2. Not affiliated with Elgato or Corsair.

Install

Downloads are on the releases page. Quit the Elgato software first – only one program can use the deck.

Ubuntu 26.04 – sudo apt install ./dailydeck_<version>_all.deb, then start Daily Deck from the app menu. On GNOME it sets up a small shell extension to see the focused window; on Wayland that takes effect after logging out and in once.

macOS 12 or later, Apple Silicon – open DailyDeck-<version>-macos-arm64.dmg and drag Daily Deck to Applications. On first start, allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, otherwise it cannot send key presses.

Windows 10 (1809) or later, 64 bit – run DailyDeck-<version>-windows-x64-setup.exe. It needs no admin rights and can start Daily Deck at sign-in. If SmartScreen warns about an unknown publisher: More info → Run anyway.

From source (other distributions, development) – see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Use

Daily Deck runs in the menu bar or system tray. The menu shows the active app and profile and lets you edit (or create) the profile for that app, pause, pin a profile regardless of the focused window (e.g. Spotify), set the brightness and start at login.

In the editor, profiles are checked from top to bottom; ★ marks the default profile. Use active window fills in the identifiers of an app: click it and switch to the app within 3 seconds. Click a key in the deck preview to edit it, drag to move it, right-click to clear it. Record captures a shortcut; Ctrl (⌘ on the Mac) is stored as primary.

Configuration

Everything lives in one file that is reloaded as soon as it is saved:

System	Location
Linux	~/.config/dailydeck/config.toml
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/dailydeck/config.toml
Windows	%APPDATA%\dailydeck\config.toml

It is created from default_config.toml, which documents every option. A profile looks like this:

[[profiles]]
name = "Firefox"
match = ["firefox", "org.mozilla.firefox", "firefox.exe"]   # Linux, macOS, Windows
color = "#8f2d00"

  [[profiles.buttons]]
  label = "New tab"
  keys = "primary+t"           # ⌘T on the Mac, Ctrl+T elsewhere

  [[profiles.buttons]]
  label = "Back"
  keys = "alt+left"
  keys_macos = "cmd+left"      # only on the Mac

Profiles can be shared as .dailydeck files (Export / Import in the editor).

Same profiles on every computer

File → Synchronisation moves the configuration (and its images) into a folder that Nextcloud, OneDrive, Syncthing or a Git repository keeps in sync; on the other computers choose the same folder and Use the configuration found there. Brightness, language, font and keyboard settings stay with each computer, in local.toml next to the local configuration. With Git, commit and pull yourself – Daily Deck picks up the changed file right away.

Command
dailydeck --print-focus	identifiers of the focused window, for match (Windows: dailydeck.exe in the install folder)
dailydeck --dry-run "primary+/"	which physical keys a shortcut would press
dailydeck --preview DIR	render all profiles as PNG images, without a device

Contributing

Bug reports, profiles for more applications and translations are welcome. CONTRIBUTING.md covers the development setup, docs/TRANSLATING.md how to add a language.

Thanks

Daily Deck stands on the work of people who share their code freely: Qt and Qt for Python, Pillow, python-elgato-streamdeck, hidapi, the Lucide and Feather icons, Python, PyInstaller and Inno Setup. Thank you – this tool would not exist without you.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later. The key symbols come from Lucide (ISC license). The Windows and macOS builds include third-party software; its licenses are in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt next to the program (in the app bundle: Contents/Resources). Stream Deck is a trademark of Corsair Memory, Inc.