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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-05-19 15:53:43 -0400
committerB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-05-19 15:53:43 -0400
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<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.14: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
<title>jsmond</title>
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<tr class="manual-group field"><th class="docinfo-name">Manual group:</th><td class="field-body">Urchlay</td>
</tr>
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Date:</th>
-<td>2020-05-18</td></tr>
+<td>2020-05-19</td></tr>
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Version:</th>
<td>0.2.0</td></tr>
</tbody>
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<h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>
<p>jsmond lets you play games with your joysticks/gamepads without the screen
saver activating due to lack of keyboard/mouse input. It can also prevent
-the screensaver from activating when a fullscreen window is in use.</p>
+the screensaver from activating when a fullscreen window is in use (e.g.
+while watching a movie).</p>
<p>Multiple joystick devices can be monitored. By default, jsmond
monitors up to 16 devices, named /dev/input/js0 through js15.
These devices don't have to actually exist: they can come and go
as joysticks are plugged in and unplugged.</p>
<p>Every <em>interval</em> milliseconds (250, or whatever <strong>-i</strong> is set to), jsmond
checks to see if there's been any activity on any of the devices it's
-monitoring. If so, it sends a fake mouse movement, keystroke, or mouse button click, which
-the screen saver will see as activity.</p>
+monitoring. If so, it sends a fake mouse movement, keystroke, or mouse
+button click, which the screen saver will see as activity.</p>
<p>It's recommended to let jsmond find the joysticks itself. However,
you can pass one or more device names (or just numbers) if the default
doesn't do the right thing for you. In this case, only these devices
@@ -470,7 +471,8 @@ needed for normal use:</p>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-d <var>&lt;dir&gt;</var></span></kbd></td>
<td>Path to the directory containing joystick device nodes.
-Default is &quot;/dev/input&quot;.</td></tr>
+Default is &quot;/dev/input&quot;. This directory is monitored with
+inotify(7) so jsmond will be aware of hotplug events.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-j <var>&lt;name&gt;</var></span></kbd></td>
<td>Name of joystick device nodes, without any numeric