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NAME
Version - daemon for ''lcd'' display devices
SYNOPSIS
lcd4linux [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
LCD4Linux is a small program that grabs information from the kernel and some subsystems and displays it on an external liquid crystal dis-
play.
If started without any options, it will try to read its configuration from /etc/lcd4linux.conf and daemonize. Please make sure your config-
uration file is owned by the user you run lcd4linux (typically root) and has permissions 600.
-f Alternate configuration file to read. Use this switch to make lcd4linux read another file than /etc/lcd4linux.conf.
-F Run in forground and don't daemonize. Useful for debugging.
-c arg allows one to overwrite entries in the config-file from the command line. arg is 'key=value'
-h shows a really short usage of lcd4linux
-i starts lcd4linux in interactive mode. Can be used multiple times
-l Prints a list of supported displays
-o Specifies an output file (see http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ for details)
-q makes lcd4linux more quiet. Can be used multiple times
-v increases verbose level. Can be used multiple times
FILES
/etc/lcd4linux.conf
Contains the configuration of lcd4linux. Please note that distributions generally don't install this file, please create it yourself
using the sample configuration as template.
/usr/share/doc/lcd4linux/lcd4linux.conf.gz
Contains a detailed and extensive example configuration file
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 is at http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/. Use that web service for reporting upstream bugs getting in touch
with development.
COPYRIGHT
This manual page was written by Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> in August 2006, for the Debian project, but may also be used by oth-
ers. 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.
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