So now that you have this awesome remote control companion, there is still one underlying problem. Your application quits, or you want to run a different app, but you don’t want to whip out a mouse or keyboard, yuck!
Solution: Alauncher
Alauncher is a free lightweight app that does one simple thing; enter some keyboard shortcut, a list of applications popup.
Here is how to link it up with flirc.
Install the application and head over to the settings. You want to configure a keyboard shortcut. I use ctrl+a
Add some applications you would like in your quick launch list
Now head over to the terminal, and type in:
flirc record_api 1 4
Press the button on your remote you’d like to link with ctrl+a and presto. Your remote control will now bring up the application launcher like the following:
Are there any other app launchers out there for OSX or other operating systems? Let us know in the comments.
So now that you have this awesome remote control companion, there is still one underlying problem. Your application quits, or you want to run a different app, but you don’t want to whip out a mouse or keyboard, yuck! Solution: Alauncher Alauncher is a free lightweight app that does one simple thing; enter some keyboard […]