[boosted]

Thank you boosted and LB06 for your excellent info.

Sorry to dig up this thread again but I have one issue now after following boosted's post above (as I had the problem with double keypresses etc). My problem is that the custom mappings I had previously set in rc6_mce are no longer responding as they did before I re-installed LIRC and modified the files as above.

What I am trying to do is program the "Clear" (0x800f040a) key to send the ESC (rather than the DELETE) key signal through the ir-keytable (or linix driver or whatever you call it) to close an instance of zsnes and return me to xbmc.

This was working previously with just the linux driver configured but not since configuring it to "co-operate" with LIRC. Weird thing is that when testing under irw and ir-keytable -t the button IS sending the KEY_ESC code. Its just no longer closing zsnes like it was originally. I can only assume that the command is getting caught in LIRC somewhere and not passing through to the program, but my Lircmap.xml has no entries to either KEY_ESC, KEY_DELETE or the "Clear" button/function. For reference, my config files match that exactly of bossteds post above except for the entry in rc6_mce has been modified to KEY_ESC.

Im stumped. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Seems that when XBMC is running (as it is in the background when zsnes is open) that ir-keytable is not registering any input. irw reads fine. I'm sure this somehow makes the answer painfully obvious to some but I still cant quite work out exactly why.

Could you create another script for the <ESC> key. Not sure if it will work or how you send the <ESC>
eg

/home/rick/.lircrc
# Send <ESC>
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_ESC
config = /home/rick/Scripts/ESC.sh
end

and

/home/rick/Scripts/ESC.sh (set permissions to executable)
# Exit zsnes
esc
fi
exit