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NAME

       I8kbuttons - Monitor the status of Fn-buttons on Dell Inspiron laptops.

SYNTAX

       i8kbuttons [<options>]

DESCRIPTION

       The i8kbuttons daemon monitors the status of the two volume buttons  of
       the Inspiron 8000 and the corresponding Fn- combinations.

       When  a  button  is  pressed  the daemon runs the corresponding command
       specified in the command-line options. By specifying the proper commnds
       it is then possible to control the volume of the sound mixer or run any
       other command you like.

       It must be noted that although the program has default commands for the
       various  buttons  there  are no standard mixer command shipped with the
       many Linux distributions which  can  change  volume  incrementally  and
       support the mute/restore function.  The default commands must therefore
       be overriden with specific commands depending on which  mixer  software
       is installed. Example:

              i8kbuttons  -u  "aumix -v +10" -d "aumix -v -10" -m "aumix -v 0"
              -r 100 -v

OPTIONS

       The program accepts the following command-line options:

       -v, --verbose
              Verbose mode, show all commands executed.

       -u, --up <command>
              Specifies the command to be executed when the VolumeUp button is
              pressed.

       -d, --down <command>
              Specifies  the command to be executed when the VolumeDown button
              is pressed.

       -m, --mute <command>
              Specifies the command  to  be  executed  when  the  VolumeOn/Off
              button is pressed.

       -t, --timeout <milliseconds>
              Specifies  the  interval  in  milliseconds  at  which the daemon
              checks the button status. Useful values are in the range 50-200.
              Default is 100.

       -r, --repeat <milliseconds>
              Specifies the autorepeat interval in milliseconds. Useful values
              are in the range 100-1000. Default is  0,  i.e.  no  autorepeat.
              Autorepeat starts after an initial delay of 250 milliseconds.

       This  program  can  be  used by normal users or started as daemon by an
       init  script.  Under  Debian  GNU/Linux  it  is   possible   to   start
       automatically the daemon at boot by creating an /etc/default/i8kbuttons
       configfile and setting the I8KBUTTONS_UP_CMD,  I8KBUTTONS_DOWN_CMD  and
       I8KBUTTONS_MUTE_CMD  variables  with the command which must be executed
       by the program. Note the the /etc/default/i8kbuttons configfile is  not
       installed by the i8kutils package because the program is usually run by
       normal users. If you want to use it  as  daemon  you  must  create  the
       config file yourself.

FILES

       /proc/i8k
       /etc/default/i8kbuttons

AUTHORS

       Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org>

COPYRIGHT

       i8kbuttons  and  all the i8kutils programs, scripts and other files are
       distributed under the GNU General  Public  License  (GPL).   On  Debian
       GNU/Linux  systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
       can be found in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL’.

SEE ALSO

       i8kctl(1), i8kmon(1)