g13.sh - using a g13 daemon and load presets

Getting g13 to work on Linux is more challenging then it should be. Unfortunately I've yet to get the g15daemon to fully work on the g13 pad (key binding issues). This way relies on ecraven's g13 app: https://github.com/ecraven/g13

1. Download it by: `git clone https://github.com/ecraven/g13`
2. Go into the downloaded directory and `make`
3. Copy the g13, pbm2lpbm, clock.sh (if you desire) to a bin directory like `/usr/local/bin`

You should now be able to run `g13` and get the default functionality.

You can use the following `g13.sh` script to make a nice start up script for this g13 app and have all your saved features. It can change the RGB led color of the text, the led color of the MR buttons, apply bindings, and display a startup lcd image.  You can also download it : http://pastebin.com/prrCSAbY


#!/bin/bash tmpfile=/tmp/g13.sh.tmp dlpbm="/usr/local/misc/wtf.lpbm" drgb="0 50 235" dmod="15" binder="/etc/conf.d/g13-binder.conf" . /etc/conf.d/g13.conf function start() { chmod 0777 /dev/input/uinput >/dev/null 2>&1 /usr/local/bin/g13 >/dev/null 2>&1 & chmod 0777 /tmp/g13-0 >/dev/null 2>&1 sleep 1.5 echo "rgb ${drgb}" >/tmp/g13-0 echo "mod ${dmod}" >/tmp/g13-0 sleep 1 cat ${dlpbm} >/tmp/g13-0 sleep 1 cat ${binder} |grep -v '#' |sed '/^$/d' >${tmpfile} while read -r line do echo "${line}" >/tmp/g13-0 sleep 0.1 done <${tmpfile} chmod 0777 /tmp/g13-0 } function stop() { killall g13 } case "$1" in --start) start;; --stop) stop;; --restart) stop; sleep 0.5; start;; esac

This script relies on two config files.

/etc/conf.d/g13.conf (http://pastebin.com/AG66eDJ5)
tmpfile=/tmp/g13.sh.tmp #dlpm is the default lpbm picture you want displayed on the screen. default will always be reverted to. dlpbm="/usr/local/misc/wtf.lpbm" #drgb is the red green blue color you wish the keys and screen to illuminate to drgb="0 50 235" #dmod is the default lighting of the M macro keys - expressed in a sequential matrix dmod="15" #binder is a file with a list of bind commands to be passed to the g13 unit. binder="/etc/conf.d/g13-binder.conf"

/etc/conf.d/g13-binder.conf (http://pastebin.com/NGtMTRqA)
# file should contain 1 bind command per line, in the format `bind g13_keyname system_keyname` bind G1 KEY_1 bind G2 KEY_2 bind G3 KEY_3 bind G4 KEY_W bind G5 KEY_4 bind G6 KEY_5 bind G7 KEY_6

Follow the notes and modify the files as you see fit. The g13-binder.conf is optional - there is a default binding in the g13 daemon, this is just if you want to customize any key mapping.

Afterwards a simple `g13.sh --start` and `g13.sh --stop` should give you the desired results.

Note: If you copied over the clock.sh, running it will keep a somewhat accurate running clock on the lcd screen, much like the default for g15daemon.

Another neat g13 app on Linux is : http://code.google.com/p/linux-g13-driver/
It certainly makes the bindings easy with a Java UI and I believe uses the same ecraven g13 daemon. However it doesn't have the other functionality easily accessible - at least I haven't played around with it enough to discover.

Check out the g13lcd.sh script, gives a simplistic way to output text or images  to the g13 lcd screen. http://customlinux.blogspot.com/2013/02/g13lcdsh-simple-app-to-load-text-or.html