[MPlayer-users] 'q' to quit

Johannes Feigl jaf.corporation at gmx.at
Sun Jan 20 19:46:01 CET 2002


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:11:50PM -0500, Nilmoni Deb wrote:
> It seems if the caps lock is active (by error) the 'q' key does not result
> in quitting of mplayer. It may be wise to make this case insensitive
> since 'Q' (upper case) has no separate function anyway. Its a bad
> coincidence that the keys 'q' and 'caps lock' are diagonal neighbours in
> many keyboards which increases the chances of mistyping 'Q' instead of a
> 'q'. Also, one may not know that keeping caps lock on is the cause behind
> 'q' key not working.

well, the same "problem" is with other keys, e.g. 'o' for osd-mode.
I would say it doesn't matter, if it does not work, disable caps lock
;-)

mfg Johannes




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