[mythtv-users] Virtual keyboard with MCE remote?

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 02:57:48 UTC 2015


Hoi Karl,

Sunday, January 11, 2015, 1:32:44 AM, you wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2015 11:44 AM, "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hoi Karl,
>>
>> Saturday, January 10, 2015, 8:17:07 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>>
>>
>> > I can't seem to get the line edit virtual keyboard to pop up when
>> > using my MCE remote (Ortek VRC-1100). I'm NOT using lirc; I verified
>> > with ir-keytable that it is sending KEY_ENTER when I press either
>> > the OK button or the Enter button on the remote. When I press either
>> > button on a text edit field, it enters the field in edit mode and I
>> > can see the cursor in the field, but it won't show the virtual
>> > keyboard. It does work on my other MythTV machine (combined
>> > frontend/backend) using lirc, but that translates KEY_ENTER to
>> > Return. I verified that "Use line edit virtual keyboard" is selected
>> > under Setup->General (and also verified the setting using MythWeb). Any help?
>>
>>
>> > Thanks,
>>
>>
>> > Karl
>>
>> Have you checked your key-mappings in mythfrontend?
>> I did a quick check and I think the relevant mapping is SELECT under
>> Global. It has Return, Enter and Space with me.
>> Do all those three work on the keyboard (I think Return and Enter is
>> differentiated between normal Enter and keypad Enter)
> Yes, it's set at the default Return, Enter, Space. I didn't look
> hard but KEY_RETURN doesn't appear to be a Linux keycode.
> Karl

irrecord -l (--list-namespace) gives the by the kernel recognised keycodes.

And indeed KEY_RETURN is not among them . It should be KEY_ENTER. If I
remember well the names are not case-sensitive and '_' can be
exchanged with '-'


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