Re: Can't disable "q" for quit

Masaru Nomiya <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:44:43 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user
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Hello,

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  Subject    : [MPlayer-users] Re: Can't disable "q" for quit
  Message-ID : <[email protected]>
  Date & Time: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:40:40 -0400 (EDT)

[Eli] == "Eli the Bearded" <[email protected]> has written:

Eli>  Stephane Ascoet <[email protected]> wrote in MPlayer-users:

Eli> > I use Mplayer 1.2.1 on an old Debian on an antique computer. I
Eli> >  sometimes press "q" by mistake, so I'd like to disable it. I
Eli> > commented the line "q quit" in input.conf, but no change!!! Is
Eli> >  it hard-coded in Mplayer? 

Eli>  I can't say if it works in that old version, but in newer versions to
Eli>  disable the _default_ value of a keyboard input, you have to assign a
Eli>  new action to the key. Instead of commenting out "q quit" try changing it
Eli>  to "q noop". When I do that, I get error messages for hitting "q", but
Eli>  playback continues:
[...]

Isn't it supposed to be "q ignore"?

Best Regards.

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