irxevent and Firefox

[Chris H. <ch...@hu...>]

Hello,

I'm having problems sending key events to Firefox using irxevent.  The
issue is trying to get the correct window name in the "config" attribute
of the lircrc file.  If I use CurrentWindow, then it works fine, however
in the system I need each button to behave differently depending on which
application has the focus.

In the man page for irxevent, it mentions that the name can be the first
few characters, or the icon name.  Unfortunately, Firefox changes both
the name and icon to "Website - Firefox".  I guess I need a way of
matching the last characters of the title?!

Now what is strange is that when you first open Firefox with no page
displayed, xwininfo does say its title is "Firefox" however the following
config still doesn't work:

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = Menu
    config = Key alt-f Focus Firefox
end

Again, if I change the config to "Key alt-f CurrentWindow" it all works
fine.

Has anybody else had similar problems, if so how did you solve them?

My system is running Debian SID.

Regards,
Chris.