I'd like to request Esc work to leave fullscreen

[dscottboggs]

Describe the solution you'd like If the media player is in fullscreen, pressing the ESC key would leave fullscreen.

Describe alternatives you've considered Learning to press F instead.

[whiteowl3]

i think youd want to start here: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player/blob/master/src/ui/webview.qml

[iwalton3]

So the funny thing about this application is that there are two fullscreen modes. If you click the fullscreen button in the web app, it is “temporary fullscreen” which I believe also is dismissed when you quit from a video. I am pretty sure this responds to ESC.

Then there is “permanent fullscreen” which is what the settings dialog and I believe F11 set. This is persisted between actions and launching the application and is what you would typically use on a dedicated HTPC.

[dscottboggs]

I see what you mean now. Just to outline the behavior, here's what I'm observing:

• When the app is just open in general, pressing F11 brings it to full-screen, F11 again exits.
• When playing a video:
  • pressing the fullscreen button on the UI brings the video fullscreen and changes the icon for full-screen-toggle
  • pressing F brings the video full-screen and changes the icon for full-screen-toggle.
  • pressing F11 brings the application full-screen and does not change the icon in the player for full-screen toggle.
• When playing a video in full-screen:
  • pressing F exits full-screen mode and toggles the icon
  • clicking the button exits full-screen and toggles the icon
  • F11 exits full-screen but does not toggle the icon. After this, pressing F or clicking the button does not enter full-screen, and toggles the icon back to the appropriate button.
• Finally, when the application is full-screen, and F or the fullscreen button is clicked, the icon toggles from box to cross, but the video remains full-screen. After this, pressing F or the full-screen-toggle button exits full-screen video and toggles the button.
• triggering the video-full-screen-mode and application-full-screen-modes alternatively (I.E. pressing F then F11 then F) keeps the application in full-screen perpetually.

Under none of these conditions does ESC do anything for me.

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Edit: Strange, I see all the other features (play-pause, nav, etc) in this mapping file but I don't see a mapping for F. So, why does the player respond to it?

[mjpieters]

Strange, I see all the other features (play-pause, nav, etc) in this mapping file but I don't see a mapping for F. So, why does the player respond to it?

Because the desktop client loads the Jellyfin Web client, and it is the web client that responds to F. See the web player controllers/playback/video/index.js source file. The web client is managed by the webview.qml file linked earlier.

I am looking for why the ESC and backspace keys don't work for me, I suspect they are not being proxied properly, at least in my Macbook Pro (M1 Pro) context.

However, now that I found webview.qml I can see that StandardKey.Back will work, and the Qt keyboard shortcuts docs tell me that that's mapped to ⌘-[ (Command-open_bracket), so I at least have a work-around now.

[felix920506]

I am using the current 1.9.1 release on Linux Mint 21.3 with Cinnamon desktop and JMP installed with flatpak doesn't respond to the esc key when in fullscreen.