[mythtv-users] MCE remote after 0.21 -> 0.27 upgrade

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:44:35 AM Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> [0.27-4 on Fedora 22]
> 
> Well that wasn't so bad... But I am stumped on my MCE USB remote. Only the arrow keys seem to work. OK doesn't do anything. The green menu button pops up an XFCE error dialog "Failed to launch shortcut 'XF86AudioMedia'".
> 
> I tried following the MCE_Remote wiki - it seems that I don't need lircd anymore, but following the HID_Remotes page doesn't get me any further.
> 
> XFCE seems to be getting in the way, but I can't figure out how.

... the morning after, still no love ...

I got XFCE out of the way by removing various XG86 shortcuts it defined, but still nothing but up/down/left/right and volume buttons seems to work. I've read a pile of instructions and advice, sometimes conflicting but my remote seems to work pretty much as before sans the XH86 stuff. "ir-keytable -t" shows me the right key events, even for keys MythFrontend won't recognize. I have the mceusb driver loaded by the kernel. I've enabled and configured and disabled lirc.

Two points that make me think something, perhaps X, is not passing most codes through:

  = ir-keytable shows some escape-codes (e.g., "^[[A") before showing the
    event data.

  = playing back a recording starts at volume level 2 and though the volume
    keys make the volume meter change, the volume doesn't.

Now I think I've just gotten spun-around by it all and there's a "Duh" moment awaiting me. What could I be missing? Do I really need to use lirc after all? Disable X (or something else like the kernel driver) from getting in the way? Something that XFCE is doing that my old FluxBox setup wasn't? 

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