esekeyd(1)

📦 version 1.2.7, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute

💖 esekeyd(1) — the ESE Key Daemon glow-up ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🎀 this is the manual page for esekeyd (that's section 1 of the Linux Manual, iykyk), aka the ESE Key Daemon, and she's literally a multimedia keyboard driver for Linux. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

esekeyd — ESE Key Daemon is a multimedia keyboard driver for Linux 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

esekeyd config_file_name [input_device_name] [pidfile_name]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, esekeyd (ESE Key Daemon, in case you forgot already 🙈) is a multimedia keyboard driver for Linux. iconic behaviour honestly.

with the 2.6 kernel series she can also handle remote controls, because those get presented as keyboards anyway — so it just works. and the best part? no kernel patch is required. none. zero. nada. periodt. 👑

it's a userspace program that pools /dev/input/event? interfaces looking for incoming keyboard key presses. that's the whole vibe.

💫 Features: 💫

  • No kernel patch need,
  • Supports keyboards, mices and remote controls,

💅 OPTIONS 💅

the options, bestie, here they are:

  • config_file_name — the location of the esekeyd config file 📂
  • input_device_name — the input (event) device; if you give this one, it turns off autodetection of the 1st keyboard device 🙈
  • pidfile_name — the location of the esekeyd pidfile; default is /var/run/esekeyd.pid 📌

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/sbin/esekeyd — main binary (daemon) 👑
  • /usr/bin/keytest — program that reports names of pressed keys ⌨️
  • /usr/bin/learnkeys — config file generator ✨
  • /usr/share/man/man1/{esekeyd,keytest,learnkeys}.1(.gz) — manual pages 📚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

keytest(1), learnkeys(1) — go read those too, they're part of the squad 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

  • See the file TODO in the distribution for information on what remains to be done. (she's a work in progress, and that's okay 💖)
  • If you want to report a problem with the program, please send mail to this address: <krzysztof@burghardt.pl> 📧
  • Provide a detailed description of the bug, the version of the program you are running (run esekeyd without any parameters to display this information — yes, literally just run it with nothing, she'll tell you), the operating system you are running the program on, and if the program crashes, I would appreciate a stack trace. 🙏
not me begging you to include the stack trace — but fr fr, please do 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This program was written by Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@burghardt.pl> and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program. 🚨 (like, capital letters ABSOLUTELY. she means it.)

and that's the whole page, bestie — Linux Utilities, 21 Feb 2006, esekeyd(1), mwah 💋 go press some multimedia keys, you've earned it 🎀✨

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