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I've asked this question in the Shade subforum as well, but no one seems to know the answer, so here goes...
I'm running Dharma Beta 1 and the current version of Aeon, and I have this problem. I've come across it on other skins (Shade), but I've never worked out why it appears on some skins and not others.
Here's the problem, if I select "TV Shows" from the home screen, wait for it to load then click 'Back' on my remote - instead of going back to the home screen, I get a sorting subscreen (Genre, Title, etc). It happens on any library, TV, Movies, Music...
I'm running an installation from the LiveCD (although I've had the same problem on the Linux version) and I'm using a Windows MCE remote. How do I get the back button to go back to the home screen instead?
This works fine on Confluence and some other skins.
Thanks for your help!
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It's not actually the function of backspace that skinners can change (it's always 'up one directory') but we can skip the other sections by adding ,return to the Home screen selection. ESC is actually the 'Home' key.
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I'm trying to do the same thing as the OP - Go back to the Home screen for Videos (instead of getting the sorting screen with genre, title, etc). I'm using the reFocus skin on Dharma Beta 2 OSX.
Can someone please help me figure out what I need to change on the keyboard.xml file?
I downloaded a copy from the wiki page and edited it but it's not working for me.
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As I said before -
Press 'ESC' to go straight back to the Home screen
or
Add ,return to the command line in the skin's XML
ie <onclick>ActivateWindow(VideoFiles,return)</onclick>
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Sorry to bother...but I could really use some help here....it still doesn't work for me =(
I have a keymap.xml file in my userdata directory and under the <MyVideoLibrary> <Keyboard> section I added:
<backspace>XBMC.ActivateWindow(VideoFiles,return)</backspace>
didn't work.
I also tried:
<backspace>XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyVideos,return)</backspace>
also didn't work.
I want the backspace key on my keyboard to take me directly back to the videos submenu screen showing:
movies
tv shows
new movies
new episodes
etc.
Currently it always goes back through 2 additional screens before getting there:
genres
title
year
actors...etc
and then files view of the my videos screen...on the third backspace it goes back to the home menu.
Is it even possible to go back using the backspace key on the keyboard to the videos submenu screen?
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Erm, I don't think you should be editing the keymap. You should be editing the line in home.xml.
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Ah, well that sounds like you would want to get RID of the ",return" part if I recall correctly...been a while since I've done any skinning though. Just open home.xml and do a search for ActivateWindow(myvideos . Then, if it has the return part listed, just delete it. I think that's what you're wanting anyhow...if may list a directory in the movies library after the "myvideos" part. If so, don't delete that. Just get rid of the return bit.