[mythtv-users] Sticky keys in 0.23

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon May 17 01:48:51 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 05/16/2010 08:22 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/16/2010 12:43 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have looked through the settings for a new 0.23 installation and
>>>>> can't seem to find sticky keys settings (ie where the right key fast
>>>>> forwards rather than skips).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any setting that changes the behavior of key presses is getting removed
>>>> since they're not really settings--they're key bindings.
>>>>
>>>> The process isn't complete, and it's not necessarily intuitive how to
>>>> make
>>>> it work, yet, but all you need to do is remove the binding for
>>>> SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD in TV Playback context.  The original plan was to make
>>>> it
>>>> so you just mapped to RWNDSTICKY/FFWDSTICKY , but since we have
>>>> overloaded
>>>> the SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD and RWNDSTICKY/FFWDSTICKY to do different things in
>>>> different circumstances, I had to take an intermediate (and less
>>>> intuitive)
>>>> approach until I can unroll all the binding overloads.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Man I'll have to get my head around that.
>>>
>>> The settings must still be stored in the database though, because the
>>> setting is still applied for the frontends that were upgraded, it's
>>> just the fresh install with no historical settings in the database
>>> that doesn't do sticky keys.
>>>
>>
>> There is no setting.
>>
>> Just unmap the keys bound to SEEKRWND/SEEKFFWD.
>>
>> Trust me.
>
> Oh believe me I do! Your posts are usually spot on. Will try tonight at home.
>

Actually I can see those entries in the keybinding table when
comparing the keybindings for the two frontends.

+-------------+----------+-------------+---------+-------------+
| context     | action   | description | keylist | hostname    |
+-------------+----------+-------------+---------+-------------+
| TV Playback | SEEKRWND | Rewind      | Left    | media       |
| TV Playback | SEEKRWND | Rewind      |         | vdpau       |
| TV Playback | SEEKRWND | Rewind      |         | mini        |
| TV Playback | SEEKRWND | Rewind      | Left    | revo        |
+-------------+----------+-------------+---------+-------------+


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