This manual page documents briefly the wminput command.
wminput is a program that provides an event driver for the wiimote, supporting all buttons (except Power)
and pointer tracking, and featuring a tracking algorithm plugin architecture.
Your kernel must be configured with uinput support (INPUT_UINPUT, or Device Drivers/Input Device
Support/Miscellaneous Drivers/User Level Driver Support under menuconfig). Compile into the kernel or as
a module. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Compile_a_Kernel_Manually for information on kernel
compilation. By default, some (most? all?) udev configurations set up a uinput device file readable only
by root. Using wminput as a user other than root requires configuration udev to change the permissions
on uinput. Place the following line in a file in /etc/udev/rules.d (see the documentation for your
distro for the recommended file for local rules) to allow anyone on the system to use uinput:
KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0666"
A more secure method uses the following line to allow anyone in <group> to use wminput, and adds only the
desired users to <group>:
KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="<group>"
A uinput group can be created specifically for this purpose, or another existing group such as wheel can
be used.
Getting X to recognize non-standard key symbols, and mapping actions to those symbols, is not automatic.
An excellent tutorial at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys can help you set this up. An
overview of the process (see the HOWTO for more information):
1.Edit ~/.CWiid/wminput.conf
2.Use xev, wminput, and your wiimote to find out if the key symbols are already mapped, and find the key
codes if they are not.
3.If the codes are not mapped to the appropriate symbols, edit ~/.Xmodmap, and use xmodmap to map them.
(A copy of my ~/.Xmodmap is included in CWiid/doc)
4.Use xbindkeys or a window manager-specific utility to map the key symbols to specific actions.
wminput tracking plugins are, by default, installed to /usr/lib/CWiid/plugins. Plugins may also be
placed in ~/.CWiid/plugins, and plugins placed here will take precedence.