[mythtv-users] How does one change channels from the keyboard?

Jesse Keating hosting at j2solutions.net
Sun Jun 22 21:27:48 EDT 2003


On Sunday 22 June 2003 18:19, Anduin Withers wrote:
> The problem may not be one of "whether the information is there" but rather
> "is the information in a good location".
>
> Take section 11 for example "Using MythTV" _great_ topic, looks like it
> would be loaded with all sorts of useful information. Click on it... "NOTE
> to Red Hat 8.0 users:" I'm not a RH8 user (well my myth box isn't) *skip*.
> Looking at the other sections under 11? "11.1 Using themes with MythTV",
> "11.2 Adding DirecTV information to the database", and "11.3 Adding support
> for an external tuner", in order of importance to me those all rate 0.
>
> Now imagine 11.1 was "Myth key bindings" or something even more obvious.
> Immediately the visibility of the issue is raised, heck the topic even
> makes it onto the index page.
>
> I'm not advocating radical change to help all us stupid users, just a minor
> reorganization. I found keys.txt because I knew it _must_ exist (though I
> made it a ways on only a sample lirc config). I'd also suggest adding
> something to section 8 mentioning section 11 and the keys.txt file as I was
> most desperate for keys.txt when configuring my .lircrc file.

This is exactly why I missed it.  Now that it has been pointed out, I've seen 
where I have to look on my system for the key mappings.  Why aren't they in 
the online documentation itself?

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