[mythtv-users] Mythbrowser and keyboard

Egeekial egeekial at comcast.net
Sun Jul 3 19:02:56 EDT 2005


That is the functionality I'm going for, though. I want a "WebTV feel".
I still would like to be able to do it by remote also.

Robert Tsai wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:19:35PM -0400, Egeekial wrote:
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>>I like many others have a wireless keyboard for my Mythbox. One
>>thing I would like to be able to do with this keyboard is to surf
>>the web using Mythbrowser, but I find that very difficult
>>considering that some keys don't actually type but are actually
>>bound to do something else (for example, move the mouse). How can I
>>change the functionality of Mythbrowser to allow the keyboard to be
>>used for purely typing within Mythbrowser?
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>>Also, is it possible to type in URLs on the fly?
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>If you're committed to using a real keyboard, then there's no point to
>using mythbrowser. You may as well use a real window manager, switch
>to a different virtual desktop, and fire up mozilla or firefox or
>something and use that to surf the web (and not worry about keys being
>co-opted by mythtv).
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>--Rob
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