[mythtv-users] New lirc client for sending XTest events: irxkeys

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/11/2006 06:23 PM, Brett Kosinski wrote:
> Well, I'm not sure if this'll be of any use to anyone else, but I 
> figured I'd let people known about a little tool I wrote for sending 
> XTest key events to an X server in response to IR events from lircd. 
>
> Recently, I played with using a combination of irexec and xmacro for 
> controlling things like zsnes (which doesn't work with irxevent), but 
> the idea of running xmacro on every key press seemed a little silly, 
> so I rolled together a simple application which combines the 
> functionality of those two apps into a single program.  The result is 
> irxkeys, which you can find here:
>
> http://frodo.dyn.gno.org/~brettk/irxkeys 
> <http://frodo.dyn.gno.org/%7Ebrettk/irxkeys>
>
> It's incredibly simple, there's no fancy config subsystem or build 
> script or anything... it just barely does the job.  But, hey, it wfm, 
> so I figured, why not share? :)
>
> Incidentally, I did a cursory look to see if there was anything else 
> out there that does the same job, but I didn't spot anything.  
> Hopefully I didn't duplicate work, here...

How does this differ from irxevent?  http://lirc.org/html/irxevent.html

Mike