The connection dialog popup is a known problem, although it is not clear why it appears. We connect to QHostAddress::LocalHost so basically I'd blame Qt for being silly, but maybe we need to create some kind of workaround.

There would be some overhead starting and stopping lircd for each button press, but maybe some kind of idle timeout could be devised. We'll take that into consideration.

edit: there seems to be long standing bug in maemo that causes the connection popup: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767