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Releases and the SVN

Releases can be got here, from the SourceForge project page.

The latest release is version 0.2

The latest (unstable development) code is available from the SVN repository.

 

Requirements

  • Linux - any flavour as long as it can cope with the following programs.
  • Amarok (and whatever KDE requirements it has) - for playing the music
  • KDE and Qt Libraries - you will almost certainly have these if you have Amarok
  • LCDProc - for the driving the LCD display. Currently version 0.5 is supported.
  • LIRC - for interpreting you remote control. (optional)

 

Installation

  1. Extract archive
  2. Enter directory
  3. ./configure
  4. make
  5. then as root: make install

 

Configuration

Configure an airlcd.xml either from scratch or using a example files in the src/examples directory. configuration instructions and example files are on the Example Configurations page.

Once done place this file in /etc/ or use the command line option, -c, to specify a file.

 

Running

To run the program just type airlcd

Command line options

  • -h for help
  • -c filename to specify an alternate config file
  • -d to daemonize it.