[mythtv-users] Using Backspace instead of Escape for "back"
Michael Zanetti
lists at follefuder.org
Wed Sep 29 18:33:36 UTC 2010
Hi all!
I bought a Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard and I'm quite happy with it except
one little annoyance. If you look at this picture of it [1], you see the nice
"Back" button on the upper right corner besides the arrows. Well, this is just
a normal Backspace button. The problem is, that mythtv uses the Escape button
to exit menus instead of the the Backspace button, so this one doesn't do
nothing most of the time. Using the Escape button of the keyboard is not
really an options as it is located on FN+Tab. Remapping the Backspace button
to Escape using xmodmap neither as I bought the keyboard mainly for typing
text (hooray for mythnetvision)
I know that there is the possibility to assign the Backspace key to the Escape
function in mythcontrols. However, this doesn't work very well in this case.
After reassigning the button, it does exit most of the menus but there are
some places where this doesn't work. You cannot exit the player and you cannot
exit the frontend. This seems to work only with the real Escape button.
The next problem ist that in the new libmythui editboxes the Backspace button
does not work as a Backspace button any more if reassigned to Escape. This
works well in the oldscool QLineEdits. However, as those are going to be
replaced by libmythui, this issue will grow over time.
Is there anyone who is successfully using the Backspace key for the Escape
function but still as Backspace when typing text? Or anyone who can tell me if
those issues are bugs beeing introduced during the libmythui transition and
should I file bug reports for it?
Thanks a lot,
Michael
[1] http://www.logitech.com/assets/22978/22978.png
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