VERSION(8)

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💖 VERSION(8) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the VERSION(8) page — that's the manual for the System Administration Utilities section, and it's literally all about lcd4linux. grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Version — the daemon for ''lcd'' display devices. yes the quotes are part of the vibe, iykyk. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lcd4linux [OPTIONS...]

that's it. that's the whole thing. so clean, so demure. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

LCD4Linux is this small program that grabs information from the kernel and from some subsystems, and then displays all of that on an external liquid crystal display. it's giving "your computer but make it wear a little outfit". 👑

okay but listen — if you start it with no options at all, it's gonna try to read its config from /etc/lcd4linux.conf and then daemonize (i.e. yeet itself into the background, main character style). 💫

🚨 IMPORTANT BESTIE 🚨 please please please make sure your configuration file is owned by the user you run lcd4linux as (typically root) and that it has permissions 600. no cap, do not skip this.

here's the option menu, and every single one is on it:

  • -f — alternate configuration file to read. use this switch when you want lcd4linux to read a file that is not /etc/lcd4linux.conf.
  • -F — run in forground and don't daemonize. super useful for debugging. (yes, "forground", that's the original spelling, we don't fix it, we respect it. 🙈)
  • -c arg — lets you overwrite entries in the config-file straight from the command line. arg is 'key=value'.
  • -h — shows a really short usage of lcd4linux. a lil snack, not a meal.
  • -i — starts lcd4linux in interactive mode. can be used multiple times.
  • -l — prints a list of supported displays. window shopping, basically. 🛍️
  • -o — specifies an output file (see http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ for details).
  • -q — makes lcd4linux more quiet. can be used multiple times. shhh. 🤫
  • -v — increases verbose level. can be used multiple times. it will simply not stop talking and honestly? we love that. 🗣️

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/lcd4linux.conf — contains the configuration of lcd4linux. please note that distributions generally don't install this file, so you gotta create it yourself using the sample configuration as a template. you're the template queen now. 👑
  • /usr/share/doc/lcd4linux/lcd4linux.conf.sample.gz — contains a detailed and extensive example configuration file. it's the blueprint, bestie.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

lcd4linux was written by Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at>

Copyright (C) 2005 The LCD4Linux Team <lcd4linux-devel@users.sourceforge.net>

🌈 ORIGIN 🌈

development of lcd4linux lives at http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/. use that web service for reporting upstream bugs and for getting in touch with development. that's the group chat. that's where the lore is. 📬

this manual page was written by Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> in August 2006, for the Debian project, but may also be used by others. Revised by Jonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com> in March 2012.

this manual page and lcd4linux is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License, version 2, can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this came from the http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/l... source, dated March 2012, and it's the VERSION(8) page — so if anyone asks, you know exactly where you got it. slay, go configure your little display, and remember: 600 permissions or it's over. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

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