[Lcdproc] Newbie question

[Peter Marschall]

On Monday, 16. April 2007 13:13, Uli Brueggemann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to LCDd and lcdproc and I have some questions:
>
> I have installed lirc_imon for the IMON VFD display and also LCDd on a
> Gentoo system. So it works now.
>
> After modprobe lirc_imon and and starting LCDd the display shows the
> message:
>
> ## LCDProc Server ##
> Cli: 0  Scr: 0
>
> First question: I do not want to get this message but my own welcome
> message. How to do this? LCDd.conf does not apparently allow to define an
> own message (or must I change some sourcecode then?)
>
> Then lcdproc -p 13666 starts the client. I have actually set all Active
> switches to false in lcdproc.conf as I do not want to show these messages.
> So of course lcdproc -p 13666 T now shows time and date (with some old text
> included, the old text has been created by running Windows and seems to be
> stored in the display). The LCDd server message is still shown by a display
> switch from time to time.
>
> When I e.g. now run lcdproc -p 13666 A then I get in addition to the
> time/date display the author message and now I have the switching sequence
> of 3 messages: server, time/date and author.

Look for 
	ServerScreen
in LCDd.conf to get rid of the server screen when other screens are present.

If you start two different lcdproc client daemons, you get the screens of 
each. If you want to get rid of the messages sent by one, simply stop it.


> Second question:
> I like to display my own texts. It should also be possible to delete the
> displayed text, maybe by another text consisting of blank chars only.
> How to display texts independant of lcdproc.conf (or how to include them
> into this conf file) ? How to clear a text that has been sent to the
> display before ?
>
> Please note that I do not know C programming. I only like to use the
> display. A function like
> lcdproc "Hello world"
> would be great.

This will not work unless the command keeps runing after submitting the
data to the LCDd server.
Otherwise the server will delete the screen created by the client
immediately when the client exits.

Maybe one of the Perl client programs can help here.

Hope it helps
Peter

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Peter Marschall
peter@adpm.de