Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: January 27, 2009Local indexUp
NAME
spacenavd, spnavd_ctl - daemon for 3D-input-devices
SYNOPSIS
spacenavd spnavd_ctl
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
spacenavd
commands.
The spacenav project provides a free, compatible alternative, to
the proprietary 3Dconnexion device driver and SDK, for their 3D input
devices (called
``space navigator'',
``space pilot'',
``space traveller'',
etc).
spacenavd, is a free software replacement user-space driver
(daemon), for 3Dconnexion's space-something 6dof input devices. It's
compatible with the original 3dxsrv proprietary daemon provided by
3Dconnexion, and works perfectly with any program that was written for
the 3Dconnexion driver.
Starting
Depending on how your system startup process is set up, it might be
the case that the spacenavd daemon starts before the X server (for
instance if you don't use a graphical login). In that case the daemon
will start properly, but won't connect to the X server until
explicitly told to do so. You can do that by running spnavd_ctl x11
start as root, or by using the graphical spnavcfg
program. You don't really want to have to do that all the time though,
so it's a better idea to add the aforementioned spnavd_ctl
command to either your ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrd file, or the
system-wide /etc/X11/Xsession file.
Configuration
The spacenavd daemon reads a number of options from the
/etc/spnavrc file. If that file doesn't exist, then it uses default
values for everything. You may use the graphical spnavcfg
program to interactively set any of these options. The daemon should
respond immediately to your changes, and also the configuration file
should be updated automatically.