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LIRCMD(8)               System Administration Utilities              LIRCMD(8)

NAME
       lircmd - LIRC mouse daemon translates infrared signals into mouse
       events

SYNOPSIS
       lircmd [options] [config-file]

DESCRIPTION
       This daemon can simulate a MouseSystems, IntelliMouse or IMPS/2 type
       mouse. It gets the received buttons from lircd and converts them to
       mouse events. To make this possible, lircmd needs a config file located
       in /etc/lircmd.conf. In this file you have to determine which button
       from which remote causes a mouse move or a mouse button click.  You can
       also specify a special button which activates or deactivates the mouse
       mode.

       -h --help
              display this message

       -v --version
              display version

       -n --nodaemon
              don't fork to background

       -u --uinput
              generate Linux input events

OPTIONS
       If you provide the --nodaemon option lircmd won't fork to background.

       On Linux systems the --uinput option will enable automatic generation
       of Linux input events. lircmd will open /dev/input/uinput and inject
       the simulated mouse events into the Linux kernel rather than creating
       the /dev/lircm device.

FILES
       lircmd will use syslogd to output error messages. It depends on your
       system configuration where they will show up.

DAEMONS
       lircd and lircmd are daemons. You should start them in some init script
       depending on your system. There are some example scripts for different
       distributions in the contrib directory. lircmd has to be started after
       lircd as it connects to the socket lircd provides.

       If you start lircd or lircmd from your shell prompt you will usually
       get back immediately to the prompt. Often people think that the program
       has died. But this is not an error. lircd and lircmd are daemons.
       Daemons always run in background.

SEE ALSO
       The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are
       located under html/ in the documentation directory.

lircmd 0.9.0                      March 2011                         LIRCMD(8)