On 1/11/06, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I found the same annoyance --- it'd always hit the equivalent of ESC on my remote a bunch of times to get to the main menu, hit it too many times and get dumped to the "do you want to quit" screen.
THEN --- i discovered in the prefs there's an option for what key lets you quit. By default it's ESC -- a bit dangerous for my taste. I changed it to <shift>-ESC and no more problems. Perfect. You can't do it unless you use the keyboard.
If it was up to me i'd change the ESC quit default --- for most people quitting myth is something you do so rarely, it shouldn't be so easy to do it by accident.
j
> Hi all.
>
> I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running
> mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem there.
>
> But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many
> exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt.
You can have MythTV prompt you when you exit.
"Are you sure you want to exit?"
The default is NO and will send you back to the main menu.
I found the same annoyance --- it'd always hit the equivalent of ESC on my remote a bunch of times to get to the main menu, hit it too many times and get dumped to the "do you want to quit" screen.
THEN --- i discovered in the prefs there's an option for what key lets you quit. By default it's ESC -- a bit dangerous for my taste. I changed it to <shift>-ESC and no more problems. Perfect. You can't do it unless you use the keyboard.
If it was up to me i'd change the ESC quit default --- for most people quitting myth is something you do so rarely, it shouldn't be so easy to do it by accident.
j
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