[MPlayer-users] lirc & GUI / special keys

[Stefan Lange]

Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi.
> 
> I've search the archives, looked at input/input.c but still can't
> figure out how I can assign special keys (like escape, cursor up/down
> etc.) to my remote control. I've tried
> 
> begin
>  prog = mplayer
>  button = Eject
>  config = esc
> end
> 

hi!
this is a quote from the official lirc-documentation, available at 
http://lirc.org/html/configure.html#lircrc_format

<begin quote>
config
     is the string that will be passed to the according application 
whenever the specified key sequence is received by lircd. If you give 
more than one config string, the config strings will be passed to the 
applications by turns. With this feature you can for example implement 
toggle buttons.
You can pass non-printable characters to applications with all standard 
C escape sequences (most common are: \n = line-feed, \r = carriage 
return, \t = tab, \e = escape, \<n> = ASCII code in octal 
representation, \x<n> = ASCII code in hexadecimal representation, \\ = 
backslash). Additionally you can supply Ctrl-X by specifying \X where X 
is an upper character or @. For example \C is Ctrl-C.
<end quote>


hope this will do the trick

regards
Stefan

> For config I've tried 'esc', 'ESC', 'key esc', 'key_esc', 'KEY_ESC'. My
> goal is to make the GUI usable with my remote, especially after the
> file selection dialog pops up (I can pop it up with "config =
> gui_loadfile" just fine).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
>