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

[Andy Grundman]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> 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

I searched the archive and found this which suggests just writing a 
script to killall xmame that gets called from a different lirc button. 
I wouldn't be able to use my same escape button though.

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