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It's because <back> is mapped to SmallStepBack in the remote.xml I guess? Change that to Back you should be all good.
Better default keymaps are MOST welcome. IMO BACK exiting fullscreen is a much better use than small step back.
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On a related note: When you press "back" while watching a full screen video, it continues playing the video and overlays the menus on top of the video. While I understand this is by design and in fact a feature, I have found it to be a pitfall for inexperienced users because it leaves them in a mode where it's not exactly clear how to get back to the video (unless you have a "fullscreen" button mapped, which IMO is rare and not entirely intuitive).
To fix this I have mapped "back" to "stop" when in the fullscreenvideo context (as well as full screen Live TV). For me this has solved a useability problem for certain users, at the expense of a feature that wasn't very important to me. I believe I also did this for my Main Menu button (though, this may be a custom button in my environment).
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@hhzz: sorry I must have misread your post. Anyway I'm not using Windows (hence the Lircmap.xml quote), though I've experienced the pain of setting up MCE remotes on Windows.
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(2013-12-13, 18:21)awp0 Wrote: On a related note: When you press "back" while watching a full screen video, it continues playing the video and overlays the menus on top of the video. While I understand this is by design and in fact a feature, I have found it to be a pitfall for inexperienced users because it leaves them in a mode where it's not exactly clear how to get back to the video (unless you have a "fullscreen" button mapped, which IMO is rare and not entirely intuitive).
To fix this I have mapped "back" to "stop" when in the fullscreenvideo context (as well as full screen Live TV). For me this has solved a useability problem for certain users, at the expense of a feature that wasn't very important to me. I believe I also did this for my Main Menu button (though, this may be a custom button in my environment).
Same here, I always change "back" to "stop". XBMC's default Apple remote keymap does this too, but for some reason we don't do it for other devices.
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I think smallstepback is a great feature. I map the |< button to smallstepback and the back key to escape. However I am thinking of mapping the back key to backspace to go up one level in menus and finding another key for escape.
How much you can do depends on how many buttons you have.
Even amongst MCE remotes there seem to be so many variations on the theme it is hard to come up with a universal map.
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Smallstepback is a fine feature. Is also already mapped, logically, to the left arrow key. Mapping it as well to the back key is confusing because you expect the back key to take you back. Mapping to 'stop' fixes it.