leanstick allows you to map joystick/gamepad events to shell commands.
With leanstick you can control the mouse, the keyboard, other applications, anything you wish using your joystick/gamepad.

gleanstick, a gui fronted to leanstick, is also available
It helps you create your leanstick config file and control leanstick from a systen tray icon

changes

Additions in the latest version (0.2) include :

• 'Sticky' profile
• User defined macros in the configuration file
• Better integration with gleanstick

help

Please have a look at the README file for more information on new features and help on the config file format.
Also here's my config leanstick file, as an example.

download

debian package
leanstick v0.2

source
leanstick v0.2
leanstick v0.1
leanstick v0.01

extras

xdotool is very useful to use with leanstick, it simulates mouse/keyboard input