Howdy all,
I have made a menu system using webpages that is shown on the screen in firefox (through x.org), when a user select tv or a video, it launches mplayer. Simple enough.

I am wanting all of this to be done via a remote control. I have set up the remote and it works once mplayer is launched, but firefox just seems to ignore it no matter what I try. irxevent is all loaded and works since mplayer notices it...and the config files all use CurrentWindow as the target...I have tried changing these to any number of different things yet firefox still ignores it.

I have read in the help for irxevent that some programs ignore the x.org "SendEvents" on purpose due to security risks and I believe this may be the problem. Is there any way to confirm it, and/or can I somehow patch the firefox source to allow them? Or is there some other simple explanation? Any help is appreciated as i'm at a dead end right now. Thanks.

Edit: actually I just had a thought, would it be possible to write an extension for firefox that would allow it to listen to irxevent? That might be an easy way out...

For me it works with Firefox 3.5. E.g. a block in ~/.lircrc containing

prog = irxevent
config = Key Page_Up CurrentWindow

can be used to do the same as Page Up key for the current program.

Thanks jis! I had completely forgotten about that project, I think it was firefox 2 at the time and it seemed to ignore any "software based" keypresses, rather than proper hardware keypresses. The forums and such I found at the time suggested this also but maybe it has been fixed in 3.5 finally!