GQView - LIRC patch

Deprecation warning

GQView has been unmaintained for a long time now, but a group of enthusiastic users took the latest release of this beautiful piece of software and gave birth to a new project: the Geeqie Image Viewer. Besides a lot of other interesting features, Geeqie has this LIRC patch already integrated in the source. So, probably you just need to go and grab Geeqie or search for it in your favourite distribution repositories.

What is this all about

GQView is a program to browse your image collections. LIRC is a library to control your PC with a remote. This patch adds LIRC support to GQView.

News

The patch

Patch for stable branch

Download patch for GQView 2.0.4 : patch-gqview-2.0.4-lirc.gz
Contributed ebuild script for Gentoo users : gqview-2.0.4.ebuild
Signature : patch-gqview-2.0.4-lirc.gz.sig

Patch for development branch

Download patch for GQView 2.1.5 : patch-gqview-2.1.5-lirc.gz
Contributed ebuild script for Gentoo users : gqview-2.1.5.ebuild
Signature : patch-gqview-2.1.5-lirc.gz.sig

Patch for latest GTK 1 release

Svilen Ivanov has published a patch for latest GTK 1 stable version (1.2.2). You can find it on his site.

Older versions

You can find patches for older versions here.

Description

Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver, an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it! More about it at www.lirc.org. Be sure to read LIRC documentation before going ahead.

Installation

Download the version of GQView matching the version of the patch from gqview.sourceforge.net. The file is called something like gqview-x.y.z.tar.gz . Uncompress the archive and from the directory containing gqview-x.y.z apply the patch with the command:

zcat gqview-lirc-x.y.z.tar.gz|patch -p0

Change to gqview-x.y.z directory and follow normal installation instructions. If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If LIRC support is enabled and an error occurs GQView will tell you on startup.

Configuration

The application name for GQView is gqview. Here is the list of supported commands:

Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc when it make sense (directional buttons, zoom in and out, ...).

Here's an excerpt from my .lircrc:

begin gqview
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = vol_up
    config = ZOOM_IN
    repeat = 1
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = vol_down
    config = ZOOM_OUT
    repeat = 1
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = down
    config = DOWN 10
    repeat = 1
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = up
    config = UP 10
    repeat = 1
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = right
    config = RIGHT 10
    repeat = 1
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = left
    config = LEFT 10
    repeat = 1
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = 1
    config = ROTATE_90
    end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = 2
    config = ROTATE_90_CC
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = back
    config = PREV
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = forw
    config = NEXT
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = skip_back
    config = FIRST
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = skip_forw
    config = LAST
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = pause
    config = PAUSE
  end
  begin
    prog = gqview
    button = surround
    config = SET_ZOOM
  end
end gqview

At the moment GQview uses the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc).

(This page is 'inspired' by LIRC documentation from mplayer).