Michael Carland wrote:
Sorry if this is answered somewhere, searching in gossamer for using
the control key as a modifier for lircrc returns almost every message
regarding remotes, due to "remote control" being in most of them.
I have used mythweb to add a jump point to mythweather of Ctrl+W.
Hitting Ctrl-W on the keyboard works, so I am that far.
Does hitting "W" (without Ctrl) do the same?
However, I am unable to get it to work from the remote. lirc
documentation says to send a control key with a backslash and capital
letter, which doesn't work. I have tried all of the following in my
lircrc:
\W
Ctrl W
Control W
Ctrl-W
Control-W
Ctrl+W
Control+W
Some of these caused a message similar to:
LircClient warning: attempt to convert '' to a key sequence failed.
Fix your key mappings.
to be printed, with the lirc config value in the quotes. Some of the
keys silently failed.
I eventually gave up and used F2, which works.
For future reference, anyone know how to make this work?
LIRC seems to interpret the "\W" and send ASCII character 23, ETB (End
of Transmission Block). If you specify "Ctrl+W", LIRC sends the whole
string (6 characters). Myth seems to be (haven't looked at the code, so
this is a guess) watching for a W while the Ctrl key is pressed--which
can't happen through LIRC. Therefore, using F(whatever) is probably
your best bet (that's what I used).
Mike
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