[mythtv-users] Looking for clarity on MythTV, to LIRC, or not to LIRC, ir-keytable, and key mappings

[Paul Bender]

On 4/7/2012 3:27 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 12-04-06 07:46 PM, Christian Szpilfogel wrote:
> ..
>> If you don't need functions such as irexec or irxevent then you don't need to use LIRC anymore. I
>> use irexec myself so I can shutdown myth from my remote.
>
> That's trivial to do without LIRC, using a simple Desktop "shortcut" script
> assigned to whatever button is preferred.
>
> Cheers

Rather than running LIRC you run a Desktop to accomplish the same same 
thing. Have you compared the difference in memory and CPU usage?