esekeyd: esekeyd (multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux) esekeyd: esekeyd: ESE Key Daemon is a multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux. With esekeyd: the 2.6 kernel series it can also handle remote controls, as they esekeyd: are presented as keyboards. It's a userspace program that polls esekeyd: /dev/input/event? interfaces for incoming keypresses, and executes esekeyd: commands as defined in its config file. esekeyd: esekeyd: esekeyd is also useful for keyboards without multimedia keys. Its esekeyd: functionality is similar to xbindkeys, but it doesn't require X esekeyd: (works in the console).