POMMED(1)

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💖 POMMED(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual, section 1, and today's main character is pommed 🎀 — the daemon that makes your Apple laptop's hotkeys actually do stuff. buckle up, it's giving iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

pommed — Apple laptops hotkeys event handler 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pommed [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first, this page is a lil quick rundown of the pommed daemon. not the whole lore, just the highlights 💅

pommed is a daemon that handles the hotkeys on Apple laptops — we're talking the MacBook Pro, the MacBook and the PowerBook. through pommed, those hotkeys control:

  • the LCD backlight level ✨
  • the audio volume 🔊
  • the keyboard backlight level — but ONLY on the MacBook Pro and the latest PowerBook, no cap 🎹
  • the CD/DVD drive ejection 💿

and that's not even all of it, because pommed also monitors the ambient light sensors found on the MacBook Pro and the latest PowerBook 🌞 — so when the ambient light level gets too low, it automatically lights up the keyboard backlight. main character energy fr fr.

pommed can optionally support the Apple Remote Control too 🍓 — but heads up, that option is disabled by default and it's only available for the MacBook Pro and MacBook. iykyk.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

pommed accepts the following command-line options. yes bestie, all three of them, we're listing them all:

  • -v — print version information. short and sweet, she just tells you who she is 💁‍♀️
  • -f — run in the foreground, printing log messages to stdout. cozy, chatty, right there with you 🫶
  • -d — run in the foreground, printing log messages to stdout and debug messages to stderr. the extra-spicy version 🔥

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/pommed.conf — the configuration file for pommed. bestie, go read the comments in the file itself, because that's where the structure of the file and the available options are laid out 📝

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

pommed was written by Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org> — shoutout to the dev, absolute legend 💜

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, periodt ✨ this was the POMMED(1) page from the General Commands Manual, dated 2007-01-09 — yes she's an elder but she's still slaying 💖 bye bestie, go press some hotkeys 🎀🦋

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