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4.8 Keyboard daemon

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The gmerlin keyboard daemon is an X11 application, which grabs key combinations and executes commands. You will communicate mostly via the configuration utility gmerlin_kbd_config. It's independent of keyboard model definitions, because it allows to enter the keyboard combination in the config dialog directly. It's independent of gmerlin or any other multimedia architecture, since the actions can be arbitrary shell commands.

You can manually start and stop the keyboard daemon, add, edit and delete key combinations and tell the daemon to apply the changes.

To automatically start the keyboard daemon at each X11 start, find out where to enter start commands in your desktop configuration add the command /usr/local/bin/gmerlin_kbd. Change /usr/local to your install prefix if necessary.

Messages from the keyboard daemon show up in /var/log/messages or in another syslog file depending on your system setup.