As mentioned in the introduction LCDd, the LCDproc server, now (with version 0.4.3 of LCDproc) has its own configuration file, which is normally /etc/LCDd.conf. If you have not installed LCDproc from the sources the configuration file might have a different location. You should find it when making your system's package manager list all the files in the LCDproc package. The format of the /etc/LCDd.conf is ini-file-like. It is divided into sections that start at markers that look like [section]. Comments are all line-based comments, and are lines that start with '#' or ';'. The server has a 'central' section named [Server]. Further each driver has a section which defines how the driver acts. Those sections start with [drivername]. The drivers are activated by specifiying them in a driver= line in the server section, like: Driver=curses This tells LCDd to use the curses driver. The first driver specified here that is capable of output functionality will be used as 'the' output driver. All extra drivers can only serve as input. The default driver to use is curses. If LCDd is started automatically by an init-script using the curses driver will lock /dev/tty1! So, be careful about what you are doing here. The drivers read their own options from the config file. For this purpose they use the config sections that are named like the driver. LCDd -d driver The -d option still works, but does not allow driverargs any more. If -d is specified on the command line, the Driver= options in the config file are ignored. The [server] section of the LCDd.conf contains the settings for the LCDproc server LCDd. Driver= DRIVERNAME Tells the server which driver(s) to use. See above for details. If not specified DRIVERNAME defaults to curses, a driver that is supposed to work on any half-way decent UNIX console. Bind= ADDRESS Tells the server to bind to the given local IP address and listen for incoming client connections. The default value for ADDRESS is 127.0.0.1, which is actually the safest variant. Port= PORTNUMBER Tells the server to listen to this specified port. If not specified PORTNUMBER defaults to 13666. ReportLevel= LEVEL Sets the reporting level. Legal values for LEVEL range from 0 (only critical errors) to 5 (everything including debugging information). If not specified it defaults to 2 (warnings and errors only). ReportToSyslog= no yes Should we report to syslog instead of stderr? Default value is no. WaitTime= SECONDS Sets the default time in seconds to display a screen. If not specified the default value for SECONDS is 4. User= USER User to run as. When started as root LCDd will drop its privileges, and run as this user instead. Defaults to nobody. ServerScreen= yes no Include the server screen, that shows the number of active clients and screens, into the screen rotation scheme when other screens exist. Defaults to yes. Foreground= no yes The server will stay in the foreground if set to true. Otherwise the server will fork to background and report to syslog. Defaults to no. The "...Key=" lines define what the server does with keypresses that don't go to any client. ToggleRotateKey= KEY Defaults to Enter. PrevScreenKey= KEY Defaults to Left. NextScreenKey= KEY Defaults to Right. ScrollUpKey= KEY Defaults to Up. ScrollDownKey= KEY Defaults to Down. The [Menu] section enables you to set some general ("global") options related to the way LCDd handles input "events". The menu is an LCDproc client built into LCDd. You can configure what keys the menu should use. Note that the MenuKey will be reserved exclusively, while the others work in shared mode. MenuKey= KEY The key that switches into menu mode (=open the main menu). In menu mode it cancels any operation. Cancelling the main menu means returning to the regular display mode. It defaults to Menu. EnterKey= KEY The key to enter a sub menu and/or, to select an entry. It defaults to Enter. UpKey= KEY The key to move to the previous menu item. If the LeftKey is not set, it is also used to move left in input fields. It default to Up. DownKey= KEY The key to move to the next menu item. If the RightKey is not set, it is also used to move right in input fields. It default to Down. LeftKey= KEY If defined, this optional key is used to to move left in input fields and to select submenu entries. It is not set by default, but if you have more than 4 keys, a natural candidate is Left. RightKey= KEY If defined, this optional key is used to to move right in input fields. It is not set by default, but if you have more than 4 keys, a natural candidate is Right. As mentioned earlier, each driver has its own section in the LCDd.conf. Although the settings are more or less self-explanatory, they are explained in the next chapter in the section for each driver. So, read through the section of your driver and change everything neccessary. The LCDproc distribution contains init scripts for RedHat- and Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions. You can find them in the scripts/ directory of the LCDproc sources. The init scripts are generated using autoconf. So, again it is important that you have run ./configure with the correct options for your system. Refer to your system's manual on how to install the scripts. The file scripts/init-LCDd.* is the init script for the LCDproc server LCDd. It does not require modification. The file scripts/init-lcdproc.* is the init script for the LCDproc "main" client lcdproc. You can retrieve a listing of all options of lcdproc running lcdproc --help.