[mythtv-users] Avoiding repeated keystrokes
António Santos
ansantos at fe.up.pt
Fri Nov 21 09:41:14 UTC 2008
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been getting a problem when using MythTV with either keyboard or
>> remote. If I quickly press the "Enter" button twice, MythTV will
>> execute the associated command twice sequentially. Let's say, for
>> example, that I'm in the Video Gallery and I associated the "OK"
>> button on the remote (or the "Enter" key) to play the video. If I
>> press the button twice quickly, the video will play two times
>> sequentially. If I have an item that launches Firefox, it will be
>> launched twice, one instance after the other has closed.
>> Is there any way to avoid this?
>
> Add repeat=x in your lirc configuration file where x is a low
> integer value. It's different for every remote, but 3 works well for
> me. It tells lircs to respond to every x keypress, so if it's set to
> 3, it will execute the first time the button is seen, then ignore
> the 2 after that (within a certain amount of time). You need to
> define this for every key you don't want to repeat quickly so you
> may not want to define it for things like up/down arrows when you
> want to scroll quickly through a list.
>
> For example:
>
> # Play
> begin
> prog = mythtv
> button = Play
> config = Return
> repeat = 3
> end
>
Thanks!
Is there any similar solution for when working with the keyboard?
António Santos
Portugal
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