[LinEAK-announce] lineakd 0.6 alpha

[Sheldon Lee-W. <to...@ro...>]

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Hi,

  For those of you who may not know, I've done a rework of the
codebase in order to support new features, and make the program
more robust overall. For all of you who like to live on the bleeding
edge give this a pounding for me and pose bug reports either here
or on the sourceforge site.

You can get the new code here:
http://lycadican.sourceforge.net/Lycadican/lineakd_cpp-0.6-alpha1.tar.gz

Here is the README:

	XOSD v2 is fully integrated now, as well as message passing.

        To compile with xosd, install xosd version 2 libs and configure with:
	(xosd is for on screen display).
        ./configure --with-xosd

	In order to get lineakd to reread it's config files, don't HUP it.
	execute lineakd -r      to stop the daemon, execute
        lineakd -x

        We support toggle keys now. i.e. on the LTCDP the
        play and pause key are the same. We define a toggle
        key as key1|key2 in the definition file. We can define
        a single action for this key in the config file by
        specifying the keyname in the for key1|key2. We can
        also specify seperate actions for the play and pause
        states by assigning actions to key1 and key2. eg.
        On the LTCDP there is the key 'play|pause' In my
        config file I can specify either:

        play|pause     = "kstart --desktop 8 /usr/bin/xmms -t"

        Or, if I want seperate functions for the play and pause
        states:

        play            = "kstart --desktop 8 /usr/bin/xmms -p"
        pause           = "kstart --desktop 8 /usr/bin/xmms -u"


        In the event that lineakd hangs (which it probably will
        at some point), you have to kill all of the processes
        manually. You can do this by executing the following
        command:

        kill -9 `ps -ef | grep lineakd | grep -v grep | awk ' { print $2 }'`

        Then, after a hang or crash (or segfault, etc) you should
        clean up the shared message queue.

        Execute:

        ipcs -q

        To see any queues that are hanging around. You'll see something
        like this (but be relatively sure it's not part of another process,
        if unsure, look at which queues are there before you run lineakd,
        or just forget about this step):

        ------ Message Queues --------
        key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages
        0x0000050c 884736     sheldonl   640        0            0

        To get rid of the queue, type:

        ipcrm msg <msqid>

        so, for the example type:

        ipcrm msg 884736

        If you have a keyboard defined in lineakkb.def that has a toggle key
        like the one for the LTCDP keyboard, please update the file with the
        new key format and send it back to me.


        Thanks. Sheldon.

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