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NAME

       irxevent - infrared X-event sender

SYNOPSIS

       irxevent [option]... [config file]

DESCRIPTION

       Irxevent is a program to send button clicks and key presses to X applications triggered by
       a LIRC driven remote control. You can control your favorite CD/MP3 player, your  TV  tuner
       program  or  any other X application that responds to keyboard or mouse input. If you like
       to you can send emacs ^X^S from your armchair.

       Irxevent is a complement to irexec(1) and irpty(1).

OPTIONS

       -d --daemon
              Fork and run in background

       -h --help
              Display usage summary

       -V --version
              Display version

FILES

       Irxevent works with the same config file as irexec and  irpty  (~/.config/lircrc).  For  a
       complete sample lircrc look at examples/lircrc.

       Part of your .lircrc could look like this:

       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = VIDEO_UP
               config = Key SHIFT-KP_Add CurrentWindow
       end
       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = VIDEO_DOWN
               config = Key SHIFT-KP_Subtract CurrentWindow
       end
       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = STOP
               config = Key ctrl-c CurrentWindow
       end
       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = 0
               config = Key f xawtv
               config = Key f xawtv
       end
       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = POWER
               config = Key q xawtv
       end
       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = CH_DOWN
               config = Button 1 329 92 kscd
       end
       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = UP
               config = Button 1 110 80 GQmpeg
       end
       begin
               prog = irxevent
               button = DOWN
               config = Button 1 130 80 GQmpeg
       end

       Simply said config =  lines may look like this:

       config = Key [shift-][ctrl-][alt-]<key> [Focus] <windowname>
               | WindowID <id> | CurrentWindow | RootWindow
       config = Button <button> <x> <y> [Focus] <windowname> | WindowID <id>
               | CurrentWindow | RootWindow
       config = xy_Key <x> <y> [shift-][ctrl-][alt-]<key> [Focus]
               <windowname> | WindowID id | CurrentWindow | RootWindow

       Some more examples:

       config = Key Up xawtv
       config = Key Down xawtv
       config = Button 1 50 110 xclickme
       config = Key q xawtv
       config = Key ctrl-c mpg123
       config = Key shift-Page_Up rxvt

       In BNF this looks like:

          LINE    = "config =" <KEY|BUTTON|XYKEY> <TARGET> |
                    "config =" <KEY|BUTTON|XYKEY> "Focus" <TARGET>
          XYKEY   = "xy_Key" <x_position> <y_position> <MOD><KEYSPEC>
          KEY     = "Key" <MOD><KEYSPEC>
          MOD     = ["shift-"]["numlock-"]["ctrl-"]["alt-"]["meta-"]
                    ["numlock-"]["mod3-"]["mod4-"]["mod5-"]["altgr-"]["scrlock-"]
          KEYSPEC = Keyname | "KeySym:"KeySym | "KeyCode:"KeyCode
          BUTTON  = "Button" <1..5> <x_position> <y_position>
          TARGET  = Windowname | "WindowID" id | "CurrentWindow" | "RootWindow"

          Keyname:
            is the key symbol that is declared in X windows. E.g. "Up" refers to the cursor arrow
            pointing up. "KP_Add" is the  plus  sign  on  the  key  pad.  Just  take  a  look  at
            irxevent.keys  (in  the documentation directory) if you are not sure about a symbol's
            name.
          KeySym:
            number as returned by XStringToKeysym(3x).
          KeyCode:
            number as returned by XKeysymToKeycode(3x).
          Windowname:
            can be the first characters of the window name displayed by the window manager or the
            name  that  is  displayed below the icon. Some programs use the name displayed by the
            window manager to show a lot of status information but don't  change  the  icon  name
            (like   xawtv).   Others   append   information   to   the  window  name  ("GQmpeg  -
            kill_windooz.mp3"). If neither window name nor icon name match the  given  Windowname
            information from XClassHint(3x) will be checked.
          CurrentWindow:
            refers to the active window as returned by XGetInputFocus(3x). Most times this is the
            window with your mouse pointer in it.
          RootWindow:
            refers to the root window as returned by RootWindow(3x). You may need  this  to  send
            events to the window manager.
          WindowID id:
            refers  to the window with window identifier id. id should be a decimal number. It is
            useful when irxevent can't find the desired window by other means.
          Focus:
            will send the specified event to the given window only if it currently has the  input
            focus. This of course does not make much sense when combined with CurrentWindow.

TROUBLESHOOTING

       If  you  have  problems  finding  the  coordinates  for a button click you can try xev -id
       <window_id>. The window_id can be found using xwininfo.

       There are programs that do not accept any synthetic X-events by default because  they  can
       cause  security  problems. Currently xterm and xemacs are known to ignore events simulated
       by irxevent.

       You can however make xterm accept external events by enabling "Allow  SendEvents"  in  the
       "Main Options" (hold down the Ctrl button and press the left mouse button inside the xterm
       window). You can as well place this  line  into  your  .Xresources  file  to  change  this
       permanently:

          XTerm.vt100.allowSendEvents: true

       Yet another possibility is to start xterm like this:

          xterm -xrm "XTerm.vt100.allowSendEvents: true"

       xemacs will accept events if you set a built-in variable. The following was taken from the
       online help:

          `x-allow-sendevents' is a built-in boolean variable.

          Value: t

          Documentation:

          *Non-nil means to allow synthetic events.  Nil means they are ignored.

          Beware: allowing emacs to process SendEvents opens a big security hole.

          In order to allow events you have to evaluate this lisp code (press  Meta-x  and  enter
          the following expression):

                   (setq x-allow-sendevents t)

          Placing this line into your .xemacs-options file should have the same result.

       If you have problems sending events please drop me an email.

AUTHOR

       Written by Heinrich Langos <heinrich@mad.scientist.com>.

SEE ALSO

       xdotool(1)
              invoked from irexec(1), xdotool provides a more flexible alternative to irxevent.

       The  documentation  for  lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in
       the documentation directory.