[MPlayer-dev-eng] fix for broken noconsolecontrols flag

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 5/19/08, Bart van Deenen <info at vandeenensupport.com> wrote:
> Hello Reimar
>
> I don't understand the man page explanation which says
> "Prevent MPlayer from reading key events from standard input"
>
> But when I run mplayer as slave, it reads complete command strings  
> from standard input, and not key events.
> What it does still do is read keypresses from the keyboard, when the  
> mplayer window has focus. This is what I want to prevent.
> Also, I run mplayer without a window manager, so I dont have any  
> close symbol to click.
>
> So I don't understand what noconsolecontrols does. I'll unbind the  
> keys I guess.

Don't top post.

The key here is the word "window". MPlayer would still continue to accept key events from other sources than console, aka X Key Events.

The initial idea of noconsolecontrols is to prevent mplayer blocking when it runs as deamon.