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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/lir-
     cmd.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 spe-
     cial 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 simu-
     lated  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 de-
     pending on your system. There are some example scripts for  different  dis-
     tributions  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  al-
     ways 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)

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