blinkd - Blinks keyboard LEDs for various purposes.

The programs blink(1) and blinkd(8) help you to count or to monitor things like incoming calls on your voice box or incoming faxes. E.g. they blink Scroll-Lock LED for incoming voice calls and Num-Lock LED for incoming faxes. Normally, all three LEDs (Num-Lock, Caps-Lock, and Scroll-Lock) are handled. The blink client will ask the blinkd server to blink the specified LED with the given rate.

-c --capslockled

Handle the Caps-Lock LED. If none of the three LEDs is specified, the default is to handle all of them.

-f t --off-time=t

Set the off blink time to the value t. The unit is one tenth of a second.

-h --help

Gives a short help on the command line options and exit.

-n --numlockled

Handle the Num-Lock LED. If none of the three LEDs is specified, the default is to handle all of them.

-o t --on-time=t

Set the on blink time to the value t. The unit is one tenth of a second.

-p t --pause=t

Set the pause time between blinking to the value t. The unit is one tenth of a second.

-r --no-reopen

Don't allow blinkd to close and re-open /dev/console all the time. This is to prevent disk activity, but may lead to inaccuracy when switching between virtual consoles.

-s --scrolllockled

Handle the Scroll-Lock LED. If none of the three LEDs is specified, the default is to handle all of them.

-t n --tcp-port=n

Use the tcp port n.

-v --version

Give a short version information and exit.

/etc/init.d/blinkd starts and stops the blinkd daemon. All options have to be set in /etc/default/blinkd.

Blinkd/blink is made by W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org>, as well as this manual page.

All important code is taken from tleds and xtleds, made by Jouni Lohikoski <Jouni.Lohikoski@iki.fi>, only the bugs are mine alone. Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>; corrected some of my typos.

Copyright 1998-2001 W. Borgert and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

A copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is available in this Debian package as /usr/share/doc/blinkd/copyright.

See blink(1) for information on bugs.

Version 0.4.6 released on 2003-01-26.

W. Borgert.