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.