jstest-gtk(1)

💖 jstest-gtk 💖

okay bestie, welcome to jstest-gtk(1) — the manual page, but make it cute. this is your joystick testing AND configuration tool and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 🎮✨

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✨ NAME ✨

jstest-gtk — joystick testing and configuration tool 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

jstest-gtk [options]...  [device]...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

jstest-gtk is a simple joystick tester built on Gtk+. She shows you a device selector plus a detailed view of your buttons and axes, and she can remap axes/buttons and calibrate the device — but calibration is joydev only, so don't come for her with something else, she can't do it 💅

and listen, even if your joystick is working mostly fine, you lowkey still wanna give her a try?? because the calibration lets you get rid of those overlarge default deadzones that SO many joysticks ship with, and that is a noticeable problem in some games. no cap. 🎯

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

jstest-gtk is mainly a graphical interface for checking that your joysticks and pads work properly. you get precise information on each axis, you can optionally recalibrate it, and you can also change the mapping. main character behavior fr fr 💖

if you run the program with no parameters, you get a window showing all the joystick devices in your system — and yes there can be more than one, she's polyamorous like that 😌 when you double click on one of them, boom, a new window opens with detailed information about its axes and buttons. 🪄

in that detailed window there are two buttons called "Mapping" and "Calibration", and those are the ones that let you reconfigurate the device. go off bestie 🫶

if you run the program with a device as an argument (for example /dev/input/js0), that device gets selected in the combo box when present. ✨

so, calibration of the axis? it's literally just a simple window where you set the values that go directly into the operative system configuration, without doing any changes on them. she does not editorialize, she does not fix them up, she just hands them over 💀 those values are split into range and dead zone (or center). in both of them you have to set a minimum and a maximum. you also get a checkbox for inverting the axis, for the contrarians among us 🙈

and here's the tea: values are changed and applied in the same instant that you modify them — there's no need to click anywhere or do anything else to apply the changes. no save button. no apply button. it's already done. periodt. 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

these program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). yes we said "these program", no we will not be elaborating 💖

• -h, --help — display help information and exit 🥰
• -v, --version — display version information and exit 🌟

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

you can find more information if you visit http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/jstest-gtk/ — go click, go read, go thrive 🦋

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

jstest-gtk was written by Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@gmail.com>. 👑

this manual page was written by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). 🎀

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okay that's the whole lore, bestie 🍓 this page is from May 9, 2009 and it's part of the jstest-gtk(1) manual — go forth, calibrate responsibly, and may all your deadzones be tiny 🧚💖✨