[Novalug] looking for remote controlled (LIRC) console-based application selector and launcher

Nick Danger nick@hackermonkey.com
Sun Dec 13 22:01:04 EST 2009


On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:33:43 -0500
Richard Ertel <richard.ertel@gmail.com> wrote:

> @Nick: yeah, this is running in Ubuntu on a PC

In that case, there are lots of launchers. If I had any skill at
writing apps for X I could suggest something like TclTK or PerlTK or
whatever, but I dont, so I have no suggestion.

> just gotta research into having that launch something other than
> gnome...

I like Gregs idea. GDM can be used to launch lots of WM's, not just
gnome. Although there is an app called 'GnomeDo' which is a launcher.
You can probably use that to launch your app choices using your remote.
There were lots of choices under a google search for "lirc program
launcher", including a reference to launching another app from XBMC.
Which might work for running Boxee for you.

Nick



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