---
name: "keytouchd-launch"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "keytouch"
version: "2.4.1-11"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/keytouchd-launch"
---

# keytouchd-launch(1)

start keytouch-related daemons in background

## NAME

keytouchd-launch - start keytouch-related daemons in background

## SYNOPSIS

**keytouchd-launch** \[ command \[ args ... \] \]\

## DESCRIPTION

KeyTouch needs a couple of daemons to run in the background of an X session, in order to proccess keystrokes. This daemons need to be started late in the session startup sequence, to allow them to pick up the proper environment.

keytouchd-launch is meant to be run by the session startup scripts. It starts keytouch's daemons in the background, executes **command** then, upon exit, terminates the daemons. The expected use case is for it to be called in a sequence such as

**dbus-launch --exit-with-session keytouchd-launch \[actual session command\]**

In this example, the keytouch daemons will be able to pick up the DBus environment variables set by dbus-launch and thus be a part of the session's bus.

## SEE ALSO

[**keytouch**(1)](/keytouch/1.md).\

## AUTHOR

keytouch was written by Marvin Raaijmakers

This manual page was written by Rodrigo Gallardo \<rodrigo@nul-unu.com\> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).