This has been tested with the serial cable that comes with the Flic and also the serial cable connected via a R232-USB adapter, but any cable from Microvision should work.

• First find out which port the scanner is connected to for example /dev/ttyUSB0. I will use /dev/ttyUSB0 in all of the examples from now on. Just switch out /dev/ttyUSB0 with whatever port your scanner is connected to.
• Open a terminal
• Start the application

./FlicServ /dev/ttyUSB0

• Start scanning barcodes. Every time you scan a code you should see the text

pushed xxxxxxxxx

• in the terminal where xxxxxxxxx is the barcode you scanned.
• You can also disconnect the barcode scanner from the cable, go away and scan a whole bunch of barcodes, come back and reconnect the scanner. All of the scanned codes should be pushed automatically and the scanner gives you a little blipblipblip to let you know that it's memory is empty.
• Now open a text document in your editor of choice and hit the global shortcut key you previously added. The first barcode you scanned should now be inserted.
• The terminal should now show the text

poped xxxxxxxxx

• This can be repeated as many times as you needed.
• Pushing and poping can be done in any order, at any time.

--noserver

If you add the --noserver switch when starting the application

./FlicServ /dev/ttyUSB0 --noserver

the application will automatically pop barcodes as soon as you scan them.

--linefeed

If you add the --linefeed switch when starting the application

./FlicServ /dev/ttyUSB0 --linefeed

the software will simulate pressing enter after a barcode is poped. --linefeed works both in --noserver and regular mode.