X4Daemon comes with absolutely no warranty. A daemon that makes it possible to use all special keys on your Sidewinder X4 keyboard. It is licensed under the GPL (General Public License), version 2 or later. Details should be in the src package or at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.
It is not possible to switch banks or to record macros.
Depending on your windowmanager you should be able to define keys somewhere, I use S1-S6 and Bank_Switch for switching between my virtual desktops in AwesomeWM, which is very nice. I didn't test this in Gnome or KDE, but it should work fine. You can check if X4Daemon works correctly with xev.
I made this package for Archlinux, I tested it on debian, but I didn't test it on any other distros.
Special thanks go to tolga9009 for posting the keycodes on ubuntu forums and on libg15 forums.
x4daemon [OPTION]...
-d, --debug Activate debug mode.
-D, --daemon Activate daemon mode, alle messages go to syslog.
-h, --help Show this help page.
-r, --reset Reset device when starting (shouldn't be necessary).
-v, --version Show version.
-w, --waiting Wait for device at start and if it disconnects.
Key: Keycode(input.h): Keycode: Keycode(XF86):
S1 KEY_PROG1 148 XF86Launch1
S2 KEY_PROG2 149 XF86Launch2
S3 KEY_WWW 150 XF86WWW
S4 KEY_MAIL 155 XF86Mail
S5 KEY_COMPUTER 157 XF86MyComputer
S6 KEY_PHONE 169 XF86Phone
Bank_Switch KEY_MEDIA 226 XF86AudioMedia
Record KEY_RECORD 167 XF86AudioRecord
Play_Pause KEY_PLAYPAUSE 164 XF86AudioPlay
Previous KEY_PREVIOUSSONG 165 XF86AudioPrev
Next KEY_NEXTSONG 163 XF86AudioNext
Mute KEY_MUTE 113 XF86AudioMute
VolumeUp KEY_VOLUMEUP 115 XF86AudioRaiseVolume
VolumeDown KEY_VOLUMEDOWN 114 XF86AudioLowerVolume
Calculator KEY_CALC 140 XF86Calculator
You can change the keys in source code, see keys[] array. (I just used some unused keycodes for the special keys.) Mute,Prev,Next,PlayPause,VolDown, VolUP and Calc use the same keycodes as before. See /usr/include/linux/input.h for more information. If you find any bugs or if you want to tell me something: development AT geekparadise.de.
- It works fine on virtualbox (stop X4Daemon on the host before trying!) until you want to end X4Daemon. X4Daemon then can't release the interface correctly until you disconnect the usb device in virtualbox's menu (X4Daemon will hang until you do this). This is not caused by X4Daemon (I think), it seem to be some problem with virtualbox's usb drivers.
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