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amorad: Amora (A Remote Mobile Assistant) daemon

NAME

amorad - Amora (A Remote Mobile Assistant) daemon

SYNOPSIS

amorad [options]

DESCRIPTION

Amora is an application that enables you to control your PC desktop using a cellphone. It uses bluetooth to send mouse and keyboard events to the graphical session. With it you can control your slides in OpenOffice.org, movies or any other application. Amora also has a screenshot feature, where you can see a thumbnail in the cellphone screen of the currently focused window in your desktop.

The server (amorad) is written in C using Xlib and XTest to send events for X session and the POSIX socket API for I/O. It must be started by the user, inside a valid X session.

OPTIONS

-h

Help (usage) message

-l

Set a specific path for the log file

-v

Show program version and exit

AMORA CLIENT

In order to use amora, you need a mobile phone with amora-client installed and running. The current client is implemented in Python for S60 (Nokia cellphones).

BUGS

See the current bugs and open new ones in the project website.

CREDITS

Author: Adenilson Cavalcanti da Silva

Contributions from: Ademar de Souza Reis Jr., Alexis Younes, Thiago Marcos Santos, Wilson Prata and others;