1WMINPUT(1) General Commands Manual WMINPUT(1)
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6 wminput - an event driver for the wiimote
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9 wminput [options]
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12 This manual page documents briefly the wminput command.
13 wminput is a program that provides an event driver for the wiimote,
15 supporting all buttons (except Power) and pointer tracking, and featur‐
16 ing a tracking algorithm plugin architecture.
17 Your kernel must be configured with uinput support (INPUT_UINPUT, or
19 Device Drivers/Input Device Support/Miscellaneous Drivers/User Level
20 Driver Support under menuconfig). Compile into the kernel or as a mod‐
21 ule. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Compile_a_Kernel_Manually for
22 information on kernel compilation. By default, some (most? all?) udev
23 configurations set up a uinput device file readable only by root.
24 Using wminput as a user other than root requires configuration udev to
25 change the permissions on uinput. Place the following line in a file
26 in /etc/udev/rules.d (see the documentation for your distro for the
27 recommended file for local rules) to allow anyone on the system to use
28 uinput:
29 KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0666"
31 A more secure method uses the following line to allow anyone in <group>
33 to use wminput, and adds only the desired users to <group>:
34 KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="<group>"
36 A uinput group can be created specifically for this purpose, or another
38 existing group such as wheel can be used.
39 See usr/share/doc/wminput/wminput.conf.sample for an example wminput
41 configuration file. Copy this file to ~/.CWiid/wminput.conf and change
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43 Getting X to recognize non-standard key symbols, and mapping actions to
45 those symbols, is not automatic. An excellent tutorial at http://gen‐
46 too-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys can help you set this up. An
47 overview of the process (see the HOWTO for more information):
48 1.Edit ~/.CWiid/wminput.conf
49 2.Use xev, wminput, and your wiimote to find out if the key symbols are
50 already mapped, and find the key codes if they are not.
51 3.If the codes are not mapped to the appropriate symbols, edit
52 ~/.Xmodmap, and use xmodmap to map them. (A copy of my ~/.Xmodmap is
53 included in CWiid/doc)
54 4.Use xbindkeys or a window manager-specific utility to map the key
55 symbols to specific actions.
56 wminput tracking plugins are, by default, installed to
58 /usr/lib/CWiid/plugins. Plugins may also be placed in ~/.CWiid/plug‐
59 ins, and plugins placed here will take precedence.
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63 -h Show summary of options.
64 -v, --version
66 Output version information and exit.
67 -c, --config [file]
69 Choose config file to use.
70 -d, --daemon
72 Implies -q, -r, and -w.
73 -q, --quiet
75 Reduce output to errors
76 -r, --reconnect [wait]
78 Automatically try reconnect after wiimote disconnect.
79 -w, --wait
81 Wait indefinitely for wiimote to connect.
82 bdaddr Specify the wiimote bluetooth address. The bluetooth device
84 address (bdaddr) of the wiimote can be specified on the command-
85 line, or through the WIIMOTE_BDADDR environment variable, in the
86 that order of precedence. If neither is given, the first
87 wiimote found by hci_inquiry will be used.
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91 wmgui(1),
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94 wminput was written by L. Donnie Smith <donnie.smith@gatech.edu>
95 This manual page was written by Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>,
97 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
98 janvier 18, 2007 WMINPUT(1)