REJOYSTICK(1)

NAME
rejoystick - translates joystick movement/buttons to keystrokes

SYNOPSIS

rejoystick [-d]

DESCRIPTION

rejoystick is a daemon that converts joystick movement and/or button presses to X keystroke events. This allows the user to use the joystick with games that don't have joystick support.

There are two modes of operation for rejoystick: the GUI configuration mode, and daemon mode.

To configure the axes/buttons rejoystick will map to keystrokes, run rejoystick with no arguments. This will display a GUI which you can use to set the mappings. When you're done, exit the program (close its window). The mappings will be written to ~/.rejoystickrc. Although the configuration is graphical, it's recommended to run it from a terminal (not a desktop launcher), so you can see its output.

To run rejoystick as a daemon, run it with the -d option. It will fork to the background, monitor the joystick, and generate keystroke events according to the configuration in ~/.rejoystickrc.

To exit rejoystick, use "killall -9 rejoystick". If you want to change the mappings, you'll have to kill the daemon and restart it, since it won't re-read its config file.

OPTIONS

-d  Run as a daemon. Default is to show the config GUI.

COPYRIGHT

See the file /usr/doc/rejoystick-0.8.1/COPYING for license information.

AUTHORS

rejoystick was written by Samuel <samel_tvom@yahoo.se>.

This man page written for the SlackBuilds.org project by B. Watson, and is licensed under the WTFPL.

SEE ALSO

The rejoystick homepage: http://rejoystick.sourceforge.net/