If you've dabbled with setting up a home media center, you've no doubt come to appreciate XBMC, the absolute best open source media player application available. And if you've used XBMC for any length ...

# - Flirc's upstream Flirc.desktop has 'Exec=Flirc' (no absolute path), # so graphical session menu launches resolve through the session # PATH, which on many distros doesn't have /usr/local/bin first ...

I have a FLIRC USB receiver connected to my Media PC running Linux. This kinda does in hardware what LIRC does in software; you can map remote control buttons to keys and it looks just like a HID ...