INFRARED REMOTE CONTROL CONFIGURATION ===================================== This is a small application like a GNOME control-panel, to allow configuration of lirc for a user's remote control, and verification that the configuration is correct. It is implemented with GTK+, using Python via PyGtk. A working PolicyKit authentication agent, as provided for instance by PolicyKit-gnome, is required for administrative tasks. INSTALLATION NOTES ------------------ You probably want to use these configure options, at least on Ubuntu, to ensure that all the PolicyKit and D-Bus stuff is installed in the appropriate place: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib Get PolicyKit and PolicyKit-gnome from <http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/>, if your package manager doesn't list them already. TROUBLESHOOTING --------------- Try running gnome-lirc-properties from the command line to see if there is any useful output, such as a python backtrace. Try running the gnome-lirc-properties D-Bus service from the command line, so you can see any output from it too: $ sudo killall gnome_lirc_properties.backend $ sudo python -m gnome_lirc_properties.backend You'll need to start using gnome-lirc-properties quickly because that instance of the D-Bus service will automatically die after a short time if it is not used.