GPIO-MANAGER(1)

✨ NAME ✨

gpio-manager — the libgpiod D-Bus daemon, bestie 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so first things first, here's how you actually run it:

gpio-manager [OPTION…]

It's a D-Bus daemon managing GPIOs. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🎀 Help Options

• -h, --help — shows you the help options, no cap. when you're lost, just ask 🫶

🧚 Application Options

• -d, --debug — emits additional debug log messages. extra yapping, but the useful kind 🔍
• -v, --version — prints the version and exits. quick little pop in, then she's gone 💨

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so like, the gpio-manager is literally the reference implementation of the GPIO D-Bus API, built on top of libgpiod. it's giving main character energy because it serves as the central authority managing GPIO chips and lines, and it exposes their functionalities to other applications through the D-Bus interface. 👑

and the way it supports operations?? we're talking requesting, releasing, and setting line values, plus monitoring events like rising or falling edges and line property changes. ate, honestly. 💅✨

D-Bus API version: 1 — write it down, it's important iykyk 📝

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> — iconic, we stan 👑

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🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

found a bug? not me being dramatic but pls report it, bestie 😭 send it to:

• Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
• linux-gpio <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>

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this has been your girl, signing off — this whole page is from libgpiod v2.2.5, dated June 2026. slay 💖🌈🎀