Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo control with wireless mouse

[Duncan W. <du...@fr...>]

Sergio Lo Cascio wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> as a first message in this list, I'd like to share my control configuration;
> I was able to activate my wireless mouse buttons to control freevo
> app, so I can use it as a remote.

This is great, why don't you put this on the wiki for everyone?

Duncan

> I mapped the up, down, return, escape and space bar (to pause video
> play) with respectively the wheel up, wheel down, right mouse btn,
> left mouse btn and wheel btn, by using the xbindkeys utility
> (http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html) along with xmacroplay
> (http://xmacro.sourceforge.net/).
> 
> this is the content of file .xbindkeysrc in user home
> ======================================
> "echo -e 'KeyStrPress Escape\nKeyStrRelease Escape\n' | xmacroplay :0 &"
>   b:3
> 
> "echo -e 'KeyStrPress Up\nKeyStrRelease Up\n' | xmacroplay :0 &"
>   b:4
> 
> "echo -e 'KeyStrPress Down\nKeyStrRelease Down\n' | xmacroplay :0 &"
>   b:5
> 
> "echo -e 'KeyStrPress Return\nKeyStrRelease Return\n' | xmacroplay :0 &"
>   b:1
> 
> "echo -e 'KeyStrPress space\nKeyStrRelease space\n' | xmacroplay :0 &"
>   b:2
>  ======================================
> 
> this configuration works also with a wired mouse, as well.
>