g15composer FIFO

darkreaper476 · 2012-05-26 03:17:51

[user@computer ~]$ g15composer
Please provide a FIFO filename to read from.

What is this file. I cant find ANYTHING on it. I cant do a thing with this keyboard until I figure this out. I've searched to the depths of google for this FIFO filename for g15composer.. Not even the developers website says anything about it. Can someone PLEASE help me out of this hole...

thanks

Last edited by darkreaper476 (2012-05-26 14:44:57)

darkreaper476 · 2012-06-21 15:10:19

Bump

Inxsible · 2012-06-21 15:15:05

try the help menu or the man pages for g15composer

darkreaper476 · 2012-06-22 18:34:50

I need to know what the FIFO files IS. I get how to run the command, thats all help and man shows you... I dont know what kind of file it wants, or what needs to be in this said file.... any example I find online just segment faults when I try to run it..

thanks

Trilby · 2012-06-22 19:36:05

I just googled and quickly found that the FIFO should not exist when you run g15composer. Once g15composer is running in the background you can pipe G15composer commands to the filename specified in the initial command.

darkreaper476 · 2012-06-23 05:15:28

quickly!? you must have magic google powers.. I've been searching for days..... I CANT make it run without a FIFO file.. again from my first post

[user@computer ~]$ g15composer
Please provide a FIFO filename to read from.

please if you got it working.. HOW? lol if you dont have a G15 keyboard then..... post the links you found maybe?.....

thanks.

Trilby · 2012-06-23 12:17:17

WTF ....

What I found was the man page. I googled "g15composer" and it was the second entry. In the man page there is an example of how to use it. Try following that example.

*wonders if this is a troll*

Edit:

nohup g15composer mynewfile
echo 'TL "Hello World"' > mynewfile

Try those two lines. "mynewfile" can be any valid filename you'd like as long as it doesn't already exist. It is the name of the file g15composer will create. What should be in it? NOTHING, it should not exist. But you must still give it a name, otherwise to where would you pipe the commands?

I do not have one of these keyboards, but so far you seem to have done nothing remotely similar to what the instructions indicate - I would expect the exact errors you describe with what you have tried.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-06-23 12:28:08)

darkreaper476 · 2012-06-23 14:01:08

[root@computer esc]# nohup g15composer mynewfile &
[1] 13322
[root@computer esc]# nohup: ignoring input and appending output to ‘nohup.out’

[root@computer esc]# echo 'TL "Hello World"' > mynewfile
[root@computer esc]#
[1]+ Segmentation fault nohup g15composer mynewfile

ah ha my mini screen says G15Composer now.. I did see that in the man page.. just never seen nohup before... didnt think anything of it..

sorry to waste your time... if you dont care to help then dont... people like me come here to get advice from people like you.. and we GREATLY appreciate it. cant tell you how many times this forum has saved my ass... its one of the main reasons I love arch so much...

thanks for getting me this far. really, thank you.

merijn · 2012-12-30 13:46:01

darkreaper476 wrote:

[root@computer esc]#
[1]+ Segmentation fault nohup g15composer mynewfile

I see you got a segmantation fault when running "echo 'TL "Hello" "World"' > lcdtest".
It looks like I'm having the same problem.

Did you get it to work?

My the lcdscreen already show g15composer so it looks like it's working. But whenever I write to lcdtest I get an segmentation fault

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#1 2012-05-26 03:17:51

g15composer FIFO

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