06-10-2016, 05:09 AM
Fresh install cured the mouse cursor issue, I have no idea what triggered it in the first place, something I installed must have messed with things I guess.
Found a sort-of workaround for the selection of the next file with the keyboard in the media player's 'choose menu'.
Ctrl+O brings up the menu, it now has a 'Filename:' text box, type the first letter (case sensitive) of the filename sequence & it expands and can be navigated up/down with the keyboard arrows.
So if all the files are named Holiday-1, Holiday-2, Holiday-3 etc. etc., hit Shift+H on the keyboard then use the up/down arrows to scroll, or if the files start with a number or lowercase letter just hit the number or lowercase letter on the keyboard.
If files in the folder are named differently like Holiday-1, Holiday-2, Overseas-1, Overseas-2 etc. then only the ones that start with H can be scrolled through until the first letter of the different filenames is entered in the text box.
Which means if there's many different filenames in a folder a lot of extra keystrokes are required just to open them from the keyboard instead of simply hitting once the down-arrow after one file has completed to view the next.
Seems this is becoming standard as I noticed it with Mint 17.3 KDE version also.
Not sure what the logic behind making that change is, I can't find anything in any release notes about it anywhere, but it seems to me that a changing of something that worked fine & was easy to use into something that now involves either clicking with the mouse or a lot more extra steps via a keyboard is a step in the wrong direction.
Found a sort-of workaround for the selection of the next file with the keyboard in the media player's 'choose menu'.
Ctrl+O brings up the menu, it now has a 'Filename:' text box, type the first letter (case sensitive) of the filename sequence & it expands and can be navigated up/down with the keyboard arrows.
So if all the files are named Holiday-1, Holiday-2, Holiday-3 etc. etc., hit Shift+H on the keyboard then use the up/down arrows to scroll, or if the files start with a number or lowercase letter just hit the number or lowercase letter on the keyboard.
If files in the folder are named differently like Holiday-1, Holiday-2, Overseas-1, Overseas-2 etc. then only the ones that start with H can be scrolled through until the first letter of the different filenames is entered in the text box.
Which means if there's many different filenames in a folder a lot of extra keystrokes are required just to open them from the keyboard instead of simply hitting once the down-arrow after one file has completed to view the next.
Seems this is becoming standard as I noticed it with Mint 17.3 KDE version also.
Not sure what the logic behind making that change is, I can't find anything in any release notes about it anywhere, but it seems to me that a changing of something that worked fine & was easy to use into something that now involves either clicking with the mouse or a lot more extra steps via a keyboard is a step in the wrong direction.