There is a console program called rgbcmdcon that allows you to try things out. Note that you don't need to do anyhing special with it to have a functional RGBcommander installation. It just needs to be there. It is mainly a dev tool for the gui calls. What follows beneath are some interesting commands from a user point of view.
At any time just type '?' and it'll show the relevant options for the current situation. When started without parameters it'll try to connect localhost:2724. Nothing stops you from running it from another computer to connect to your cabinet. That is what it is designed to do like so : rgbcmdon 1.2.3.4 2724 . Once connected it'll look somewhat like this :
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connected to localhost:2724 RGBcommander Linux build 0.4.0
?
get,procdiff run once, start/stop processes, run again to get results
set,stick,way sets the joysticks to the supplied way (4 or 8)
stop,animation stops the running animation
set,animation,anim,speed starts playing the supplied animation ...
get,animation,anim||* returns xml animation cfg, wildcard * gets all
get,flashanimations gets all available flash animations
flash,flashanim,flip(optional) flashes an animation to board - PERMANENTLY erases ...
flash,preview,flashanim,flip approximates how a flash animation would look in flash
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and a lot of other commands ...
Note that the get,procdiff call can be very handy to determine a process real name during cfg