2024-01-06 08:26:48 +01:00
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# pbbuttonsd
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2024-01-06 08:26:50 +01:00
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PBButtons is a program suite to support laptop specific functions and make them
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available again under Linux.
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Basically it was developed to support the special hotkeys of an Apple iBook,
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Powerbook or TiBook but since version 0.5 the design has been changed to
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support all kind of laptops or notebooks.
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With this programms the keys for the display brightness, the volume of speaker
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and headphone, the mute key and the eject key will do their job as expected.
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The daemon also do some power management tasks including low battery warnings,
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dimming the display if idle, sleep on command, etc.
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The main part of PBButtons is the daemon pbbuttonsd which work as a server that
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do all the work.
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It runs in background and is preferable started at boot time.
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Multiple clients could register themselves to get messages about events from
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the server.
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The smallest client is pbbcmd which allows to change all of pbbuttonsd options
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at runtime from the command line.
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It could ask for the status of each option and could also change it.
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This client is now part of the pbbuttonsd package.
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