wiipdf(1)

💖 wiipdf 💖

okay bestie, so wiipdf is a User Manuals classic and honestly it's giving tiny chaotic genius. it's a lil tool that lets you present a PDF using xpdf and your wiimote. yes, the wii controller. no, i'm not kidding. periodt. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

wiipdf — present using xpdf and your wiimote 🕹️

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wiipdf bluetooth-id pdf-file

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so wiipdf is a tiny tool to present a PDF using xpdf and your wiimote. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🌸

you kick it off by handing it two things:

• the bluetooth ID of your wiimote — bestie, use hcitool scan to get it 💅
• the path</> to the PDF you wanna present

then wiipdf tries to connect to your wiimote. on the wiimote itself you gotta press buttons 1 and 2 at the same time to enter discoverable mode (iykyk). the second the connection is established — which usually takes like 3-4 seconds, ngl — wiipdf launches xpdf with the given filename. slay. ✨

now the fun part: press A or B on your wiimote to go forward one slide, or go backward one slide. pressing the home button on your wiimote ends the presentation, like a little mic drop 🎤. and every single keypress is confirmed by a short rumble</> of your wiimote — it's giving tactile feedback, it's giving main character energy, obsessed. 🫶

😭 BUGS 😭

okay so here's the tea. wiipdf does not know how many slides your PDF consists of. none. zero. it's just out here vibing.

so therefore — you can press A as many times as you want, even if you're at the very end of the PDF. nothing stops you. the internal slide counter will just be increased. 💀

so fr fr: no bounds checking, no "bestie you're done", just an ever-climbing counter. handle with care.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Michael Stapelberg <michael+wiipdf at stapelberg dot de>

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this little wiipdf(1) moment lives in the Linux User Manuals section, dated SEPTEMBER 2008 — shoutout to the era that gave us both wiimotes and this absolute icon of a utility. go forth and present. 🌈✨