Topic: antimicro is a program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad

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antimicro is a graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad - for Windows or Linux systems.

Description
antimicro is a graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad. This program is useful for playing PC games using a gamepad that do not have any form of built-in gamepad support. However, you can use this program to control any desktop application with a gamepad; on Linux, this means that your system has to be running an X environment in order to run this program.

This program is currently supported under various Linux distributions, Windows (Vista and later), and FreeBSD. At the time of writing this, antimicro works in Windows XP but, since Windows XP is no longer supported, running the program in Windows XP will not be officially supported. However, efforts will be made to not intentionally break compatibility with Windows XP.

Also, FreeBSD support will be minimal for now. I don't use BSD on a daily basis so the main support for FreeBSD is being offered by Anton. He has graciously made a port of antimicro for FreeBSD that you can find at the following URL: http://www.freshports.org/x11/antimicro/.


License
This program is licensed under the GPL v.3. Please read the gpl.txt text document included with the source code if you would like to read the terms of the license. The license can also be found online at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Download
Source code archives and Windows binaries are available from the antimicro Releases section on GitHub:

https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro/releases


Command line

Usage: antimicro [options] [profile]

Options:
-h, --help                     Print help text.
-v, --version                  Print version information.
--tray                         Launch program in system tray only.
--no-tray                      Launch program with the tray menu disabled.
--hidden                       Launch program without the main window
                               displayed.
--profile <location>           Launch program with the configuration file
                               selected as the default for selected
                               controllers. Defaults to all controllers.
--profile-controller <value>   Apply configuration file to a specific
                               controller. Value can be a
                               controller index, name, or GUID.
--unload [<value>]             Unload currently enabled profile(s).
                               Value can be a controller index, name, or GUID.
--startSet <number> [<value>]  Start joysticks on a specific set.
                               Value can be a controller index, name, or GUID.
-d, --daemon                   Launch program as a daemon.
--log-level (debug|info)       Enable logging.
--eventgen (xtest|uinput)      Choose between using XTest support and uinput
                               support for event generation. Default: xtest.
-l, --list                     Print information about joysticks detected by
                               SDL.
--map <value>                  Open game controller mapping window of selected
                               controller. Value can be a controller index or
                               GUID.

Pre-made Profiles

There is a repository for pre-made antimicro profiles. Using a pre-made profile, you can have a controller layout that is suitable for playing a game without having to map everything yourself. It makes using antimicro really convenient. In order to use those pre-made profiles, you have to be running at least antimicro version 2.0 and antimicro must have been compiled with SDL 2 support.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/antimicro.mirror/

https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro/releases/latest

https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro