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There isn't much documentation on the game I'm playing using WINE, and it doesn't detect a joystick. I want to use joy2key to map keyboard keys to joystick buttons, but can't figure out exactly how to use its command line interface.

joy2key -dev /dev/input/js0 -terminal

That command shows what to press, but I can't figure out how to map the keys since the instructions are not clear.

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You can use antimicro, it is a fork of joy2key and has a GUI, use this PPA for 12.04 to 15.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ryochan7/antimicro
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install antimicro

For 16.04 to 17.10 use this PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mdeguzis/libregeek
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install antimicro

Source

Screnshot of AntiMicro and key mapping

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  • Thanks a ton do you know ho much time i have spent fixing compilation of rejoystick and figuring out how joy2ky works ? around 2 hours now Jan 12, 2016 at 18:38
  • I too have been through this hell, I assure you, this is a great application :)
    – Mark Kirby
    Jan 12, 2016 at 18:41
  • they changed the package name its antimicro now insted of anti-micro Jan 12, 2016 at 18:48
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    @levitopher Updated for 16.04+ versions of Ubuntu.
    – Mark Kirby
    Oct 2, 2017 at 18:46
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    There is not version for 18.04. You can follow instructions to compile in antimicro repository. Jul 12, 2018 at 2:26
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For those looking for a solution that's easily installable on Ubuntu 18.04+, I found qjoypad in the official Ubuntu repositories. Install it like this:

sudo apt install qjoypad

Then, it should be available in your launcher. It starts as a system tray icon, and you can launch the configurator by right clicking on it.

Personally, I really like the quick bind option that lets you press a key on a gamepad and then a key on your keyboard to update the mapping for that layout automatically. Note that it does indeed natively support multiple gamepads.

For me, I had some trouble with getting the right click to launch the configurator to work on the Unity 7.5 desktop - and the left-click menu doesn't appear to have an option for launching it. Thankfully, there's a workaround for this too. Simply launch qjoypad like so:

qjoypad --notray

....this will disable the system tray icon and instead launch a window with the icon in it instead - which works as expected.

This can be made to happen automatically by editing /usr/share/applications/qjoypad.desktop. Find the line that starts with Exec=, and append --notray to the end of it (make sure that there's a space after qjoypad at the end of the line and --notray).

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    This solution works in Debian too.
    – tres.14159
    Feb 1, 2020 at 22:22

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