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6 Version - daemon for ''lcd'' display devices
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9 lcd4linux [OPTIONS...]
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12 LCD4Linux is a small program that grabs information from the kernel and
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15 If started without any options, it will try to read its configuration
16 from /etc/lcd4linux.conf and daemonize. Please make sure your configu‐
17 ration file is owned by the user you run lcd4linux (typically root) and
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20 -f Alternate configuration file to read. Use this switch to make
21 lcd4linux read another file than /etc/lcd4linux.conf.
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23 -F Run in forground and don't daemonize. Useful for debugging.
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25 -c arg allows to overwrite entries in the config-file from the command
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28 -h shows a really short usage of lcd4linux
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30 -i starts lcd4linux in interactive mode. Can be used multiple times
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32 -l Prints a list of supported displays
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34 -o Specifies an output file (see
35 http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ for details)
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37 -q makes lcd4linux more quiet. Can be used multiple times
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39 -v increases verbose level. Can be used multiple times
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42 /etc/lcd4linux.conf
43 Contains the configuration of lcd4linux. Please note that dis‐
44 tributions generally don't install this file, please create it
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47 /usr/share/doc/lcd4linux/lcd4linux.conf.gz
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51 lcd4linux was written by Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at>
52 Copyright (C) 2005 The LCD4Linux Team <lcd4linux-devel@users.source‐
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56 Development of lcd4linux is at
57 http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/. Use that web service for
58 reporting upstream bugs getting in touch with development.
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61 This manual page was written by Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
62 in August 2006 for the Debian project, but may also be used by others.
63 This manual page and lcd4linux is free software; you can redistribute
64 it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
65 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
66 License, or (at your option) any later version.
67 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License,
68 version 2, can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
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