acpi_fakekey(1)

✨ acpi_fakekey(1) — NAME ✨

okay bestie, so the manual name here is acpi_fakekey(1) 💖 and it's basically the acpi event wrapper, literally a tiny helper that does the heavy lifting for you 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

acpi_fakekey — acpi event wrapper 🧚

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

acpi_fakekey [KEYNUMBER]

ngl the synopsis is giving minimalist 💅 you just pass an optional KEYNUMBER and that's the whole vibe ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so acpi_fakekey is lowkey the MVP of acpi events 👑 it grabs the key numbers for specific events that get spit out by the scripts living in /etc/acpi/, and then it writes those numbers into the correct input FIFO in /dev/input/eventx 🔥

the way that it just slides them into the right pipe is iconic 😭

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

no cap, there are no options for this one 🙈 it just does its thing with no flags needed 💅

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• acpid(8) — the daemon that keeps an eye on acpi events 👀
• acpi_listen(8) — listens for acpi events so you can see what's happening 🫶

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

this manual page was written by Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 💜 she really said "share it with everyone" and that's the energy we love 🫶

Debian GNU/Linux 🌈 2007-01-22 🌈 acpi_fakekey(1) — stay iconic, bestie, periodt 💖✨