There are hardcoded hotkeys in OBS Studio (page up & down) ?
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Which is unfortunate. I've just today hit the same snag. I'm using OBS as a slide-show machine using a homebrew script, with a couple of procedures mapped to hotkeys. The remote I have (Kensington, rather old) has its buttons mapped to keyboard 'Next' and 'Prior', immovably. Unfortunately these are exactly 'page up' and 'page down'. Inevitably, focus was on the scene list this morning after a last-minute programme change, and disaster ensued until I switched to using KP4 and KP6 (an existing duplicate hotkey mapping).
I can't see a way of disabling OBS's handling of Next and Prior. However, as I use linux, I've since found a workaround using xmodmap to remap the keys in question:
Code:
xmodmap -e 'keysym Next = KP_6'
xmodmap -e 'keysym Prior = KP_4'Doesn't help a windows user though. Maybe OBS's hotkeys should be able to be disabled?
FerretBomb
Active Member
Moving through a list isn't a hotkey, it's basic standardized UI navigation/interaction.
It would fall under the category of simple user error to have the list selected as the active focus item. You can also use Studio Mode to avoid having these changes reflected immediately in live, without switching focus to the Transition button. Which will, by the way, activate if it has focus and the user hits the enter or space key. Again, a basic UI navigation standard.
It would fall under the category of simple user error to have the list selected as the active focus item. You can also use Studio Mode to avoid having these changes reflected immediately in live, without switching focus to the Transition button. Which will, by the way, activate if it has focus and the user hits the enter or space key. Again, a basic UI navigation standard.
DCStrato
Member
And still disappointing as it conflicts with standard presenters when you DON'T want to change scenes but do something like run a slide show.
Even in PowerPoint at the sheet list the Page Up and Down and arrow keys move through the list. This is standard GUI behaviour. Having unrealistic expecations does not change a bit about that.
But why using OBS Studio as a slide-show machine? Why not Window Capture a (PowerPoint) presentation? When focused this will have the desired arrow keys behaviour.
But why using OBS Studio as a slide-show machine? Why not Window Capture a (PowerPoint) presentation? When focused this will have the desired arrow keys behaviour.
DCStrato
Member
Because OBS has a slideshow source for this purpose that works great except it has yet to learn how to pass-thru page-up/page-dn to its own active slideshow function if using a PP remote is desired. NORWII N76 presenter has programmable keys for off-standard slideshow software and solves the problem.
Having the Image Slide Show to work at the Page Up/Down keys is not the problem. I don't have that brand of presenter device to test with, but setting the actual keyboard keys as hotkeys works fine. So if the presenter device actually sends those keystrokes, it should work.
Your problem apparently is with the focus being somewhere else in OBS Studio that also reacts upon Page Up/Down. To prevent that, try to bring the focus (back) to the Image Slide Show by clicking at it once. That can be either in Program or Preview.
Your problem apparently is with the focus being somewhere else in OBS Studio that also reacts upon Page Up/Down. To prevent that, try to bring the focus (back) to the Image Slide Show by clicking at it once. That can be either in Program or Preview.
DCStrato
Member
Thanks, I am fully aware of focus. Been coding in the software industry since 1983. We really need to keep focus in the scenes window and on the slideshow scene for several reasons, but paging from the remote makes that a bit difficult. Standard remotes are mostly hardcoded for Powerpoints page-up, page-down for slides, F5/ESC for Play/Stop, and '.' for show/hide. The NORWII allows its emulated keys to be configured away from those hard-coded in OBS. A workaround for Windows users that only have a PowerPoint remote is Microsoft's free Power Toys that allows remapping page-up/page-dn/F5/Esc to other key sequences like Ctrl-F7 and Ctrl-F8 for example. You do lose those for other functions however as they are globally remapped for all windows applications and have to be manually restored. Other key mapping software offers options to quickly restore the defaults.