Irkick keyboard emulation

[floodx]

I cannot figure out how to emulate keyboard keystrokes on my remote control (it is an MCE using mceusb on lirc) with IRKICK. I assume this is done through DCOP? or am I mssing something simple...

[Murz]

Re: Irkick keyboard emulation

For emulate keyboard events or keypress, keyboard shortcuts via kdelirc (irkick) you can use the xte tool:

- install xte on your computer
- create a new action using the Program Launcher Profile
- Select function "Execute"
- insert parameter 1: xte
- insert parameter 2: keydown Control_L,key a,keyup Control_L

This should create an action executing the following command:
xte "keydown Control_L" "key a" "keyup Control_L"

which in turn triggers the Ctrl+a keypress.

Thanks to Michael Zanetti for this info at bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234679