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6 lircmd - LIRC mouse daemon translates infrared signals into mouse
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10 lircmd [options] [config-file]
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13 This daemon can simulate a MouseSystems, IntelliMouse or IMPS/2 type
14 mouse. It gets the received buttons from lircd and converts them to
15 mouse events. To make this possible, lircmd needs a config file located
16 in /etc/lircmd.conf. In this file you have to determine which button
17 from which remote causes a mouse move or a mouse button click. You can
18 also specify a special button which activates or deactivates the mouse
19 mode.
20 -h --help
22 display this message
23 -v --version
25 display version
26 -n --nodaemon
28 don't fork to background
29 -u --uinput
31 generate Linux input events
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34 If you provide the --nodaemon option lircmd won't fork to background.
35 On Linux systems the --uinput option will enable automatic generation
37 of Linux input events. lircmd will open /dev/input/uinput and inject
38 the simulated mouse events into the Linux kernel rather than creating
39 the /dev/lircm device.
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42 lircmd will use syslogd to output error messages. It depends on your
43 system configuration where they will show up.
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46 lircd and lircmd are daemons. You should start them in some init script
47 depending on your system. There are some example scripts for different
48 distributions in the contrib directory. lircmd has to be started after
49 lircd as it connects to the socket lircd provides.
50 If you start lircd or lircmd from your shell prompt you will usually
52 get back immediately to the prompt. Often people think that the program
53 has died. But this is not an error. lircd and lircmd are daemons. Dae‐
54 mons always run in background.
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57 The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are
58 located under html/ in the documentation directory.
59lircmd 0.9.0 March 2011 LIRCMD(8)