[mythtv-users] Back/Exit (escape) not working from remote

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 15 11:09:47 EST 2004


On Thursday 15 January 2004 10:50, Andy Grundman wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > I have everything working except for one thing, I can't get
> > MythTV to recognize an <escape> from the remote control.
> >
> > Testing with irw and ircat I get (for button presses):
> >    irw displays "Back/Exit" (hauppauge_pvr)
> >    ircat --config=/home/mythtv/.lircrc irxevent
> >     displays "Key Escape CurrentWindow"
> >
> > Just pressing the button pastes a ` into my terminal window.
> >
> > Nothing happens when I'm running mythfrontend. If I press the
> > ESC key on the keyboard, I back up one level as I'd expect.
> >
> > Everything else on the remote works fine.
> >
> > This is with:
> >     2.4.23 kernel
> >     mythtv-0.13
> >     lirc-0.7.0pre2 (patched with the i2c 2.8.0 patch)
> >     PVR-250 card (grey remote)
> >
> > I'm not using Myth built-in lirc support at the moment. I tried
> > that first but I couldn't get the remote to work at all without
> > irxevent. I'm rebuilding again with lirc support enabled.
>
> I just got Escape working last night with irxevent.  Here is the
> relevant piece of my config:
>
> ~mythtv/.lircrc:
> # Escape/Exit/Back
> begin
> prog = irxevent
> button = Phone
> config = Key Escape CurrentWindow
> end
>
> A good side-effect of this is that it allows me to close any focused
> window such as an snes9x window.  I haven't got it working with
> full-screen MAME yet though, even though a keyboard Escape closes it.
>  I think it gets confused because it's full-screen and isn't a
> "CurrentWindow" or something.  I am using WindowMaker by the way.

You probably will not be able to use irxevent to control xmame; I think 
it's because it grabs the keyboard directly & doesn't use XInput or 
whatever the relevant X mechanism is.

-JAC



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