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Open Joystick Display

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title: Open Joystick Display 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: Tool
🗃️ Genre: Tool 👁️ Visual: 2D
🏷️ Category: Tool ➤ Input devices ➤ Webcam ➤ Video Recording 🏝️ Perspective: First person (interface)
🔖 Tags: Tool; Overlaying; Live Streaming; Video Recording; Steering Wheel; Controller ⏱️ Pacing: Real Time
🐣️ Approx. start: 2019-01-06 👫️ Played: Single
🐓️ Latest: 2023-11-11 🚦 Status: 04. Released (status)
📍️ Version: Latest: 2.9.0 / Dev: 64b4a2a ❤️ Like it: 9. ⏳️
🏛️ License type: 🕊️ Libre 🎀️ Quality: 7. ⏳️
🏛️ License: BSD 4-Clause ⭐ (temporary):
🎰️ ID: 15705 🐛️ Created: 2019-12-18

🚦 Entry status

💡 Lights on: ✓ 🚧️ Some work remains to be done:
📰 What's new?: 💖️ A touch of love to this entry 💭️ New version published (to be updated):
🦣️ Awaiting publication on Mastodon: 🎨️ Significant improvement: ✓
🦺️ Work in progress: 🎖️ This work: 5 stars
📰 Previous News: ✓ 🛜️ RSS (on RSS Guard): ✓
👫️ Contrib.: goupildb & Louis 🛜️ Reading frequency: 0w (well-spaced updates)
🐜️ Updated: 2026-09-12

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📖️ Summary

📜️[en]: A libre, multiplatform tool for configuring and displaying on-screen actions performed on a gamepad. It allows users to remap all joysticks and buttons to function as they wish, and during a video stream (OBS is supported), it displays the gamepad inputs on screen overlaid on the game footage. It supports profiles and most gamepads, and offers numerous themes. 📜️[fr]: Un outil libre et multiplateforme de paramétrage et d'incrustation à l'écran des actions réalisées sur un gamepad. Il permet d'une part de réassigner l'ensemble des sticks et boutons pour qu'ils agissent comme l'utilisateur le souhaite, et d'autre part, lors d'un stream vidéo (OBS est supporté), d'afficher à l'écran les actions réalisées au gamepad superposées à l'image du jeu. Il supporte les profils et la plupart des gamepads, et propose de nombreux thèmes.

🎥️ Videos


🕯️ How To: (202005), (201907), (201907),


🐧 Linux plays: Gaming On Linux (202912),

🕸️ Links

🏡️ Website & videos
Website: [Homepage] [Dev site 1 2] [Features/About] [Screenshots]
Videos: t(202xxx) gd(202xxx) gu(202xxx) r(202xxx) lp(202912) ht(202005) ht(201907) ht(201907) g[fr](202xxx) g[de](202xxx) g[ru](202xxx) g[pl](202xxx) g[cz](202xxx) ht[sp](201908) ht[pt](201903) g[it](202xxx) g[tr](202xxx)]
Doc: [WIKI] [FAQ]
Updates: [RSS] / [Changelog 1(news/blog) 2(release notes) 3(tags) 4(commits)]

💰 Commercial
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🍩️ Resources
• Open Joystick Display (Mirror on Internet Archive): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)

🛠️ Technical informations
[PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames]

🦣️ Social
Devs (Anthony Mattera (KernelZechs) [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
The Project: [Blog] [Chat] [Forums] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [reddit] [Discord]

🐝️ Related


📦️ Misc. repositories
[Repology] [pkgs.org] [Generic binary] [Arch Linux / AUR] [openSUSE] [Debian/Ubuntu(author's repo)] [Flatpak] [AppImage(author's repo)] [Snap] [PortableLinuxGames]

🕵️ Reviews
[HowLongToBeat] [metacritic] [OpenCritic] [iGDB]

🕊️ Source of this Entry: [Gaming on Linux on mastodon (20191218)]

🦣️ Social Networking Update (on mastodon)

🛠️ Title: Open Joystick Display
🦊️ Idea: A tool for overlaying gamepad actions on the screen (for display during video recording)
🏡️ -
🐣️ https://github.com/North-West-Wind/open-joystick-display-transparent
🔖 #LinuxTool #Overlaying #Controller #SteeringWheel
📦️ #Libre #Arch #Deb #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 2.9.0
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/North-West-Wind/open-joystick-display-transparent/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/North-West-Wind/open-joystick-display-transparent/releases.atom

🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/GS4-r0a5Lys
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/dpWhv8i5J6M
🐧https://www.youtube.com/embed/vG9muZ0kWI4

🕶️ A view of its UI (taken from the author's website) featuring, in the center and on the main section, a silhouette of a steering wheel, pedals, and gearshift against a black background, with numerous settings on either side - particularly for key remapping.

📚️ Open Joystick Display is a libre, multiplatform tool for configuring and displaying on-screen actions performed on a gamepad. It allows users to remap all joysticks and buttons to function as they wish, and during a video stream (OBS is supported), it displays the gamepad inputs on screen overlaid on the game footage. It supports profiles and most gamepads, and offers numerous themes.

🕵‍ xxx: (🧪️Not_tested)

📕 Description [en]

📜️ "A tool for overlaying gamepad actions on the screen (for display during video recording)" 📜️

A powerful and easy to use streamer-ready overlay for your joystick or gamepad. Completely free and open source.

✅️ Multi-Platform
✅️ Wide Support for Joysticks/Controllers/Gamepads
✅️ Custom Themes
✅️ Custom Mappings
✅️ Chroma Support
✅️ Tons of Built-In Themes
✅️ Broadcast Profiles for Ease of Use
✅️ Broadcast Mode for OBS or XSplit
✅️ Arcade and Fight Stick Support
✅️ NintendoSpy/RetroSpy Integration
✅️ Client+Server Support for Encoding PCs
✅️ New: Switch Controller Support Using Fixed Triggers
✅️ New: Open Joystick Display Server NX for Nintendo Switch

📕 Description [fr]

Un outil d'incrustation à l'écran des actions du gamepad (pour affichage en cours d'enregistrement vidéo), par Anthony Mattera (KernelZechs).
En JavaScript/CSS.

Open Joystick Display (ojd) est un outil libre et multiplateforme de paramétrage et d'incrustation à l'écran des actions réalisées sur un gamepad. Il permet d'une part de réassigner l'ensemble des sticks et boutons pour qu'ils agissent comme l'utilisateur le souhaite, et d'autre part, lors d'un stream vidéo (OBS est supporté), d'afficher à l'écran les actions réalisées au gamepad superposées à l'image du jeu. Il supporte les profils et la plupart des gamepads, et propose de nombreux thèmes.

Voir aussi / See also (incrustation d'éléments à l'écran pour l'enregistrement de vidéos): GOverlay + MangoHud, Open Joystick Display,


Un overlay (NdT : superposition à l'écran) prêt pour le stream (vidéo) puissant et facile à utiliser pour votre joystick ou votre manette de jeu. Entièrement libre et open source.

✅️ Multi plateforme
✅️ Large prise en charge des Joysticks/Controllers/manettes de jeu
✅️ Thèmes personnalisés
✅️ Mappages personnalisés
✅️ Prise en charge des variations de couleur
✅️ Des tonnes de thèmes intégrés
✅️ Profils de diffusion pour une facilité d'utilisation
✅️ Mode de diffusion pour OBS ou XSplit
✅️ Support des Sticks Arcade et Combat
✅️ Intégration NintendoSpy / RetroSpy
✅️ Prise en charge client + serveur pour les PC de codage
✅️ Nouveau : prise en charge du contrôleur Nintendo Switch utilisant des triggers fixes
✅️ Nouveau : serveur NX Open Joystick Display pour Nintendo Switch