NAME

       spacenavd, spnavd_ctl - daemon for 3D-input-devices

SYNOPSIS

       spacenavd
       spnavd_ctl

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the spacenavd commands.

       The  spacenav  project  provides  a  free,  compatible alternative, to the proprietary 3Dconnexion device
       driver and SDK, for their 3D input devices (called “space navigator”, “space pilot”,  “space  traveller”,
       etc).

       spacenavd,  is  a free software replacement user-space driver (daemon), for 3Dconnexion's space-something
       6dof input devices. It's compatible with the original 3dxsrv proprietary daemon provided by  3Dconnexion,
       and works perfectly with any program that was written for the 3Dconnexion driver.

   Starting
       Depending  on  how  your system startup process is set up, it might be the case that the spacenavd daemon
       starts before the X server (for instance if you don't use a graphical login). In  that  case  the  daemon
       will start properly, but won't connect to the X server until explicitly told to do so. You can do that by
       running  spnavd_ctl  x11 start as root, or by using the graphical spnavcfg program. You don't really want
       to have to do that all the time though, so it's a  better  idea  to  add  the  aforementioned  spnavd_ctl
       command to either your ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrd file, or the system-wide /etc/X11/Xsession file.

   Configuration
       The  spacenavd  daemon  reads a number of options from the /etc/spnavrc file. If that file doesn't exist,
       then it uses default values for everything. You may use the graphical spnavcfg program  to  interactively
       set  any  of  these  options.   The  daemon  should  respond  immediately  to  your changes, and also the
       configuration file should be updated automatically.

AUTHOR

       spacenavd was written by John Tsiombikas (nuclear@member.fsf.org)

       This manual page was assembled by M G Berberich <berberic@invalid>, for the Debian project  (but  may  be
       used by others).

                                                January 27, 2009                                    SPACENAVD(8)