Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

[Lorenzo Beretta <lory.fulgi@infinito.it>]

Merciadri Luca ha scritto:
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> Hi folks,
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> I am using VLC 0.8.6h Janus (with wxWidgets). Totem and other GNOME's
> built-in players make the appropriate action when I press a specific
> music key on my (damn Microsoft, but standard) keyboard. 
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> However, it is not the case with my VLC. It simply does not act when I
> press `Play,' `Stop,' `Previous' or even `Forward' on my keyboard. I
> looked in the options, and the user seems to be allowed to configure
> the keys, but there are strange checkboxes with Alt and Ctrl, and I do
> not understand why. I tried pressing keys for specific actions in the
> list of VLC keys' shortcuts, but it seems not to be of great interest,
> as VLC still does not make anything for me.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks.
> - -- 
> Merciadri Luca
> See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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I'm on testing (which has vlc 1.03), but from what I remember old vlc 
versions used to look something like this:

CTRL    |       ALT    |       KEY    |      ACTION
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 n      |       n      |        'p'   |    play/pause
 y      |       y      |        's'   |    stop
 n      |       y      |        'p'   |    rewind

that means, simply:
play/pause --> 'p'
stop       --> alt + ctrl + 's'
rewind     --> alt + 'p'

(this configuration of course is not what I'm using)

in case you're interested, new versions of vlc make it easier (imho)