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Lirc not running, yet the remote can control the desktop. Through what?

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I am trying to configure my remote. The good news, is that it "Just worked". Meaning: I plugged it in, ran the gnome-lirc-properties and now I can control some parts of my desktop with it.

It seems, though, that it is not lirc handling it. I have killed lircd. It does not show under ps:

ps faux | grep ir

#shows a few processes, like firefox, but nothing like lirc(d), irw, irrecord etc.

The device is still active thought:

sudo cat /dev/lirc0

Pressing buttons on my remote make it print all sorts of strings.

Pressing buttons on my remote actually control Gnome/Unity/Desktop. E.g. Volume up and down make the volume go up and down, mute works, the "windows-button" fires up banshee and so on.

What is reading out my remote? And how can I configure that?

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answered 1 Year ago raacket · Accepted Answer

Like Florian said, Ubuntu is seeing the remote as a keyboard.

You can add the below to /etc/X11/xorg.conf to stop X from picking it up:

Section "InputClass"

  Identifier "Remote"

  MatchProduct "<your transceiver input name>"

  Options "Ignored" "True"

EndSection

(If there is no xorg.conf, just create it (sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf))

To get your input name:

cat /proc/bus/input | grep Name

(Just pick the one that seems closest to what you think it is, mine is "Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver")

Then install lirc (sudo apt-get install lirc) and go through the setup process (I have to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc to get the setup dialog to run for some odd reason)

Then reboot (or run sudo restart lightdm and log back in)