Re: a daemon with support for hotplug, keyboard shortcut mapping and remotes with built-in mice

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Hi!

Paul Bender "peb...@gm..." wrote:

> Recently, due to the acquisition of some additional remote control
> hardware, I have encountered three LIRC nice-to-haves. First, in order
> to more easily support MCE remotes that show up as input devices and
> send keyboard shortcuts, it would be nice to be able to map the keyboard
> shortcut events (e.g. KEY_LEFTCTRL+KEY_LEFTSHIFT+KEY_B) into single key
> events (e.g. KEY_REWIND) before outputting them on the lircd socket.

Should be possible already by modifying lircd.conf accordingly.

> Second, in order to more easily support remotes with act as both remotes
> and mice, it would be nice to be able to split the remote into two
> separate input devices: a remote to be handled by LIRC and a mouse to be
> handled by Xorg.

I have added this feature just recently into the devinput driver. Code is  
in CVS.

> Third, in order to support Bluetooth remotes that do
> not appear as an input device in the device file system until after they
> are paired, it would be nice to support hotplug without requiring the
> restarting of the lircd daemon.

If you start lircd with a device that does not exist yet, lircd will  
complain, but will check regularly until it appears.
E.g. you can unplug and replug USB receivers, lircd will continue working  
just as nothing had happened.

Christoph