lcd4linux8

Usage

Overview

LCD4Linux is a small program that grabs information from the kernel and some subsystems and displays it on an external liquid crystal display.

If started without any options, it will try to read its configuration from /etc/lcd4linux.conf and daemonize. Please make sure your configuration 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.sample.gz

Contains a detailed and extensive example configuration file

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.