NAME

       esekeyd - ESE Key Daemon is a multimedia keyboard driver for Linux

SYNOPSIS

       esekeyd config_file_name [input_device_name] [pidfile_name]

DESCRIPTION

       esekeyd ESE Key Daemon is a multimedia keyboard driver for Linux.  With the 2.6 kernel series it can also
       handle  remote  controls,  as  they  are  presented  as  keyboards. No kernel patch is required.  It is a
       userspace program that pools /dev/input/event?  interfaces for incoming keyboard key presses.

   Features:

       - No kernel patch need,

       - Supports keyboards, mices and remote controls,

OPTIONS

       Options:

       config_file_name
              location of esekeyd config file

       input_device_name
              input (event) device; if given turns off autodetection of 1st keyboard device

       pidfile_name
              location of esekeyd pidfile; default is /var/run/esekeyd.pid

FILES

       /usr/sbin/esekeyd - main binary (daemon)

       /usr/bin/keytest - program that reports names of pressed keys

       /usr/bin/learnkeys - config file generator

       /usr/share/man/man1/{esekeyd,keytest,learnkeys}.1(.gz) - manual pages

SEE ALSO

       keytest(1), learnkeys(1)

BUGS

       See the file TODO in the distribution for information on what remains to be done.

       If  you  want  to  report  a  problem  with  the   program,   please   send   mail   to   this   address:
       <krzysztof@burghardt.pl>.

       Provide  a  detailed  description  of  the  bug,  the version of the program you are running (run esekeyd
       without any parameters to display this information), the operating system you are running the program  on
       and if the program crashes, I would appreciate a stack trace.

AUTHOR

       This  program  was  written by Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl> and may be freely distributed
       under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

Linux Utilities                                    21 Feb 2006                                        esekeyd(1)