joy2key: Emulate keyboard events using a joystick

SYNOPSIS

joy2key Usage: joy2key ["Window Name"]

       [ -rawconsole ]
       [ -terminal ]
       [ -X ]
       [ -axis [(axis0) low hi] [(axis1) low hi]  ...]
       [ -thresh [(axis0) low hi] [(axis1) low hi]  ...]
       [ -buttons [(button0)] [(button1)] [(button2)] ...]
       [ -dev {/dev/input/js0} ]
       [ -rcfile {.joy2keyrc} ]
       [ -config {no default} ]
       [ -autorepeat {(freq) 5} ]
       [ -deadzone {(percent) 50} ]

note: [] denotes `optional' option or argument,

      () hints at the wanted arguments for options
      {} denotes default (compiled-in) parameters

(note: defaults may have been changed by editing joy2key.c)

DESCRIPTION

joy2key monitors the joystick (normally /dev/input/js0) and sends keyboard events to an X window, terminal, or raw console. In the case of X, xwininfo(1) is used to retrive the window ID, which should not be a problem as this is a standard utility in most X11 distributions. To find the symbolic name of a particular key, see include/X11/keysymdef.h. In terminal mode, joy2key sends the ascii character given on the command line (that is, "joy2key -buttons a" means send lowercase 'a' when the first joystick button is pushed). In raw console mode, please consult the document "rawscancodes" included in this distribution for the proper scancodes.

Options

-X: Send X events. May be compiled out of your copy of joy2key.
-rawconsole: For SVGALIB and similar programs that put the keyboard in raw mode. Sends scancodes. May be compiled out of your copy of joy2key.
-terminal: Send ascii characters. May be compiled out of your copy of joy2key.
-axis: Specifies actions to send when passing low/high values for each axis. Specified in pairs, from axis0 ... axisN, that is, the X axis is axis0, then the Y axis (axis1), then if you have a joystick hat that may be axis 2 and 3, etc. To figure out which axis is which, use the jstest program that comes with the joystick driver.
-buttons: Similar to -arrows, but for buttons. Goes from button0 ... buttonN, specifying key to send for each button on joystick. Use the jstest program to determine the numbering for each button.
-thresh: Specifies low/high thresholds to use (i.e. at what point moving the stick or pressing the gamepad triggers an event) in pairs, for each joystick axis.
-dev: Specifies joystick device to use. Defaults /dev/input/js0 (first joystick)
-autorepeat: Turns on and optionally specifies autorepeat frequency, i.e. the number of times per second a button which is held down will be repeated.
-deadzone: Controls sensitivity when manually calibrating.
-rcfile: Sets the rc file to look in.
-config: Reads in a config in an rc file.

FILES

/dev/js[01] The joystick driver. Must be installed for joy2key to work. Joy2key only supports versions 1.0+ of the joystick driver. Older versions of joy2key use the 0.8.0 joystick driver. If for some reason a 1.0+ joystick driver does not work for you, use joy2key 1.2.

The Linux joystick driver is available at

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/

~/.joy2keyrc Rc file searched for commands in -config.

The joy2key homepage is located at:

http://interreality.org/~tetron/technology/joy2key/

BUGS

I don't like writing man pages, so this man page may be buggy :)

COPYING

This is free software under the GNU General Public License. See COPYING in the archive to more information.

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