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Jakob
Asked: 2012-02-16 09:08:49 +0800 CST

Lirc, irxevent: Why doesn't it work with Nautilus?

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I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity 3D and use a remote control via lirc. Everything works fine in applications like Firefox, Banshee, but when I focus Nautilus or Gedit any key which refers to "CurrentWindow" doesn't work, i. e. (from ~/.lircrc):

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = KEY_OK
    config = Key Return CurrentWindow
end

I know that it worked on an older system, like 11.04. Any ideas?

nautilus lirc 11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As I workaround I installed xautomationInstall xautomation and modified ~/.lircrc to use xte instead of irxevent wherever it referred to CurrentWindow. The mentioned passage now looks like this:

    begin
    prog = irexec
    button = KEY_OK
    config = xte 'key Return'
end

    Now everything's working fine again.

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