Right Hotkey not working (VLC 1.1.0)

[hobi]

Are you sure you removed navigate left from left arrow and then set it to new action?

So, is that bug possible to fix?

[VLC_help]

What bug you mean? That the arrows are defaulted to menu navigation? Or that when you override existing hotkey, it doesn't remove the old one?

[hobi]

What bug you mean? That the arrows are defaulted to menu navigation? Or that when you override existing hotkey, it doesn't remove the old one?

That when you override existing hotkey, it doesnt remove the old one. That problem was only on right arrow key "very short forward jump", but now it seems to be fixed 1.1.7.

[uvelece]

In my experience, nothing has changed as far as 1.1.7 version. "Very short backward jump", which I assign to left key, works OK; however "very short forward jump", which I set to right key, keeps on doing nothing when pressed.

[soraxd]

yes i am also having this problem, im experiencing this problem on the latest version of VLC in both Windows OS and on my Linux OS. i have removed the "navigate right, and navigate left, and set the left and right arrow key to 'short jump left' and 'short jump right', no matter what order i reset these preferences in, nothing works. after reading thru everyones posts here, i realized that "very short jump" in either direction work fine with left and right arrows, so im using them for the time being, but i would love to be able to use left and right arrows for short jumps. i love vlc, and have been using it for many years, i will continue to use it even without arrows, but would be much happier to see them working, thanks!

[hobi]

In my experience, nothing has changed as far as 1.1.7 version. "Very short backward jump", which I assign to left key, works OK; however "very short forward jump", which I set to right key, keeps on doing nothing when pressed.

I was wrong, it wont work

[hatchetman208]

Found this thread when I googled my issue. I just upgraded to Win7 64bit and I installed VLC. I unset all default arrow keys then I set left/right arrow keys for backwords and forwords and then set Up/Down for volume up and down. When I went to test them the Up, down, right arrow keys did nothing but shift+right arrow key and any variation thereof works but they don't work alone, however left arrow key works. All keys work outside of VLC.

[manbearsloth]

I was able to get the Right key working. After fiddling around for a while in the vlcrc file I got it working. This is the text copied straight out of my file. The carriage returns were included when I pasted, not sure if they matter. I'm pretty sure I deleted an extra # or inserted one, can't remember now. I also assigned Right as the global key, which appears in this code(be sure to hit the apply button at the bottom after pressing right). You can jump to this section in your code if you ctrl+f and search for "jump+short=right" assuming you already assigned it to right. I put the assignment before and after to make sure you have no extra #'s before or after the important key assignment.
#global-key-jump-short=Unset# Short forward jump (key)key-jump+short=Right# Short forward jump (key)global-key-jump+short=Right# Medium backwards jump (key)

Hope this helps.
P.s. It didn't start working until after I restarted my computer. Closing and reopening it didn't work.

[uvelece]

I was able to get the Right key working. After fiddling around for a while in the vlcrc file I got it working. This is the text copied straight out of my file. The carriage returns were included when I pasted, not sure if they matter. I'm pretty sure I deleted an extra # or inserted one, can't remember now. I also assigned Right as the global key, which appears in this code(be sure to hit the apply button at the bottom after pressing right). You can jump to this section in your code if you ctrl+f and search for "jump+short=right" assuming you already assigned it to right. I put the assignment before and after to make sure you have no extra #'s before or after the important key assignment.
#global-key-jump-short=Unset# Short forward jump (key)key-jump+short=Right# Short forward jump (key)global-key-jump+short=Right# Medium backwards jump (key)

Hope this helps.
P.s. It didn't start working until after I restarted my computer. Closing and reopening it didn't work.

Thank you for sharing your info, but what you have done is to set right key as a global key. In that case it works fine. It may be used as a workaround while this issue is fixed but, after 10 versions, it would be great if this bug could be solved.

[Maximus78]

I had a similar problem with all arrow keys on a Windows 8 (x64 french version).

When settings keys in the options window, VLC was saving arrow shortcuts with the following values : Gauche, Droite, Haut, Bas. I had to manually change the file C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\vlcrc and replace all occurrences of Gauche, Droite, Haut, Bas with english values Left, Right, Up, Down.

Beware, VLC expects the following exact values "Left", "Right", "Up", "Down" (case sensitive).

Then I restarted VLC and it worked

Hope this helps.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

YEs, this is fixed in 2.1.1

[Maximus78]

YEs, this is fixed in 2.1.1

Cool, I'll try as soon as 2.1.1 is available for download

[Maximus78]

It works fine now (in 2.1.1). Thanks for the quick fix

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You're welcome.