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

[Paul Bender]

On 4/9/2012 10:26 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/07/2012 10:30 PM, Erik Jensen wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Paul Bender wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> Rather than running LIRC you run a Desktop to accomplish the same same
>>> thing. Have you compared the difference in memory and CPU usage?
>> If you do not run a desktop already, you can use a lightweight tool
>> such as XBindKeys (http://www.nongnu.org/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html) to
>> launch scripts in response to keypresses.
>
> And, even if you don't run a Desktop Environment (GNOME/KDE/xfce/Unity),
> you should be using a Window Manager--whether you're using LIRC or not.
> And even the "minimal" lightweight Window Managers, like Fluxbox (about
> 1MB "incremental" RAM) or RatPoison (about 300kB "incremental" RAM),
> have support for binding keys to actions/scripts/programs. And if 300kB
> or 1MB RAM is the difference between your system working or not, you
> need a new system for MythTV. :)

Absolutely. I run RatPoison.