passing IR commands from lircrc to the OS/screen manager

[diyhouse]

I am using stanzas similar to the following in order to pipe commands to mythtv,....

# Button Zero
begin
prog = mythtv
button = KEY_NUMERIC_0
config = 0
end

My question is how do I pipe a command, eg Ctrl-Alt-left/Right to the OS in order to switch view screens.

What "prog" entry do I need to use?

Many thanks

[diyhouse]

As a point of closure on this question I have found that the following should sort my problem out,.. although I must confess I have not got round to trying it out yet as I have other issues to work and fix.


irexec will allow you to run programs. irxevent will allow you to trigger X11 key presses.