rinputd

Revision 8 as of 2009-09-16 17:35:55

Clear message

rinputd is a server daemon that listens for remote input clients and sends their input events to the Linux kernel.

Installation

You can install the rinputd package from the rinput ppa at https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/ppa. Synaptic sometimes has issues with ppas, so if rinputd doesn't show up after adding the ppa to your software sources and reloading the package list you can try using apt: 

$ sudo apt-get install rinputd

After installing the package add a user for rinputd: 

$ sudo saslpasswd2 -c -u rinput <username>

Usage

rinputd supports the following arguments:

Short Switch Long Switch Argument Description Default
-r --realm string Realm to authenticate clients against rinput
-c --cert certificate file path SSL certificate file /etc/rinput/rinput.crt
-k --key private key file path SSL private key file /etc/rinput/rinput.key
-p --port number between 1 and 65535 Port to listen for clients on 8771
-n --no-broadcast none Do not advertise rinput service through mDNS
-v --verbose none Verbose output
-q --quiet none Quiet output

The arguments supplied to rinputd when run by the init script can be modified in the file /etc/default/rinputd.