[mythtv-users] Using Remote as a Mouse

[Raphael Pooser]

gLaNDix wrote:
> Jim Gifford wrote:
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>> Has anyone tried to get lircmd to work with mythtv. I'm interested in 
>> trying to get this to work.
>>
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> yah, i'm using the ATI Remote Wonder as a mouse without problem ... as 
> someone else said, really only useful in xine (and if you have your 
> remote setup well for xine, the usefulness is minimal anyway)
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> -g-
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I switched over to a serial receiver and a sony TV remote as my main 
interface because I found the range on my Remote Wonder was too short 
(strangely it has longer range in windows - I'm not going to claim to 
know what's going on).  Glandix, have you ever had any issues about the 
range of the remote wonder?
Before I made the switch though, I would use the remote wonder mouse 
quite often, to do menial tasks in gnome that I didn't want to kneel 
down and pick up the keyboard/mouse from under the table for.  It's good 
for putting a few links on your desktop, hovering over them and then 
executing them with the "ok" button or whatever.  Not exactly killer app 
functionality though.  Not sure why you would want to use a mouse with 
mythtv itself though as it's supposed to be designed without a mouse in 
mind.
Raphael