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.TH VERSION "8" "August 2006" "http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/" "System Administration Utilities"
.SH NAME
Version \- daemon for ''lcd'' display devices
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lcd4linux [\fIOPTIONS...\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
LCD4Linux is a small program that grabs information from the kernel and
some subsystems and displays it on an external liquid crystal display.
.PP
If started without any options, it will try to read its configuration from
\fB/etc/lcd4linux.conf\fR and daemonize. Please make sure your configuration file
is owned by the user you run lcd4linux (typically \fIroot\fR) and has permissions
\fB600\fR.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR
Alternate configuration file to read. Use this switch to make lcd4linux read another
file than \fI/etc/lcd4linux.conf\fR.
.TP
\fB\-F\fR
Run in forground and don't daemonize. Useful for debugging.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR \fIarg\fR
allows to overwrite entries in the config-file from the command line. arg is 'key=value'
.TP
\fB\-h\fR
shows a really short usage of lcd4linux
.TP
\fB\-i\fR
starts lcd4linux in interactive mode. Can be used multiple times
.TP
\fB\-l\fR
Prints a list of supported displays
.TP
\fB\-o\fR
Specifies an output file (see http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ for details)
.TP
\fB\-q\fR
makes lcd4linux more quiet. Can be used multiple times
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
increases verbose level. Can be used multiple times
.SH FILES
.TP
.I "/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.
.TP
.I "/usr/share/doc/lcd4linux/lcd4linux.conf.gz"
Contains a detailed and extensive example configuration file
.SH AUTHOR
lcd4linux was written by Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at>
.br
Copyright (C) 2005 The LCD4Linux Team <lcd4linux\-devel@users.sourceforge.net>
.SH 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.
.SH COPYRIGHT
This manual page was written by Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
in August 2006 for the Debian project, but may also be used by others.
.br
This manual page and lcd4linux is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
.br
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License, version 2, can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.