[mythtv-users] 0.22 - lirc and ctrl-esc or alt-esc not working

[Steven Adeff]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Roo <roo.watt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/20 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>> On 11/19/2009 06:18 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>
>>> looking for a little help with getting lirc to send ctrl-esc or
>>> alt-esc to MythTV. both work fine from the keyboard, and irw shows the
>>> button from the remote is working, but from within MythTV I can't get
>>> either to get Myth to pop up the shutdown/reboot menu while it works
>>> when using the keyboard.
>>
>> In your lircrc, are you using:
>>
>> config = Alt+Esc
>>
>> or
>>
>> config = Ctrl+Esc
>>
>> and with
>>
>> prog = mythtv
>>
>> (I doubt it would work with irxevent or whatever)
>>
>
> Mythcontrols recognise the Ctrl+Esc as Ctrl+Ctrl+Esc for me. I think
> this issue relates to the changes Daniel made to lirc event handling,
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/19499.
>
> To be honest I forgot I was having this problem, I mentioned it to
> Daniel and meant to look into it before 0.22 was cut.

so should I open a ticket for this?


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