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.