MCE(8)

📦 version 1.116.4, in alpine 3.24

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, you're reading the System Manager's Manual page for mce(8) — iconic. This whole thing is about mce: a daemon that provides mode control functionality. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mce [OPTION]...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

On startup, mce will read the initial states of the various radios from the radio states file and broadcast these states. No cap, that's the opening move. 🦋

Notifiers are registered for various GConf entries, as well as D-Bus message handlers for the method calls that mce provides, and D-Bus signal handlers for the signals that mce listens to. It's giving extremely plugged-in daemon energy.

mce will also listen to key events from the power button. If the user presses the power button, the action configured in /etc/mce/mce.ini will be executed. 👑

Among the other functionality handled by mce is the logic for the touch screen and keypad lock, LED patterns, and display backlight control. Literally so much main character work. 🌈

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -d, --daemonflag — Run mce as a daemon.
  • --force-syslog — Log to syslog even when mce isn't run as a daemon.
  • --force-stderr — Log to stderr even when mce is run as a daemon.
  • -S, --session — Use the session bus instead of the system bus for D-Bus communication.
  • --show-module-info — Show information about loaded modules.
  • --debug-mode — Start mce even if communication with dsme fails.
  • --quiet — Decrease debug message verbosity.
  • --verbose — Increase debug message verbosity.
  • --help — Display help for the command.
  • --version — Display version and author information.

🦋 GCONF KEYS 🦋

  • /system/osso/dsm/dsm/locks/touchscreen_keypad_autolock_enabled — bool (read only). If this key is set to true, the touchscreen/keypad lock will automatically be enabled when the screen blanks. If this key is set to false, the lock will only be activated if the user triggers it manually. ✨
  • /system/osso/dsm/display/display_brightness — int (read only). The brightness profile to use for the screen. Valid values range from 1 to 5.
  • /system/osso/dsm/display/display_dim_timeout — int (read only). Number of seconds to wait before the screen is dimmed.
  • /system/osso/dsm/display/display_blank_timeout — int (read only). Number of seconds to wait before the screen is blanked.

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /var/run/mce.pid — PID-file used by mce.
  • /var/run/mce/boot — File used by mce to detect whether the program was started on bootup or restarted due to a crash/manual restart.
  • /var/lib/mce/radio_states — Stores the system radio states. 🚨 This file should never be edited manually, and shall not be modified by any other process than mce, since the file is only read when mce is started. Periodt.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

  • Jun 16 2010: Updated for new and modified functionality.
  • Jun 13 2010: Various improvements.
  • May 13 2010: Updated for modified functionality.
  • Oct 19 2007: Use escape‐codes for hyphens.
  • Apr 12 2007: Minor fixes.
  • Oct 23 2006: Minor fixes.
  • Oct 3 2006: Fix typo.
  • Sep 23 2005: Fixed minor typos.
  • Sep 21 2005: Initial version of this manual page.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

mce and its manual page is written by David Weinehall <david.weinehall@nokia.com>.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Report bugs to <david.weinehall@nokia.com>.

Copyright © 2005‐2011 Nokia Corporation. All rights reserved.

Source/version: Nokia · Date: Jan 20, 2011 · Manual: MCE(8) — okay bye bestie, close the tab with love! 💖✨

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