So, my OS (Xubuntu 20.04) sees and uses the Streamzap on its own, without LIRC installed. In that way some of the buttons work in mythfrontend but not enough of them.
I installed LIRC and configured it and it seems to see my remote and I've brought over my old lircrc and also tried creating one per the documentation but no change in behavior.
I went meddling around with the remote settings in mythfrontend; it was set to /dev/lircd which doesn't exist on my system. I changed it to the default of /var/run/lirc/lircd and bam -- now it doesn't work at all, not in mythfrontend and not in xfce.******
***** I initially thought this was true but the remote in fact still works in xfce even though the enable slider is off:
My thought is that xfce and mythfrontend are fighting over the remote but not sure how to resolve.
Thoughts?
Apologies if this has been hashed over before but searching didn't turn up anything that seemed relevant.