Apr 06
For those of you who have lost your Apple Remote or have an older Mac without an IR reciever, the new and improved Front Row included with Leopard now has keyboard commands. You can start Front Row with the icon in the Applications folder, but you can also start it with Command (⌘) + ESC. From there, UP is equivalent to + on the remote and DOWN to - ; LEFT to rewind; RIGHT to fast forward; ENTER to pause/play; and ESC to menu. The keys work exactly the same as the buttons on the remote.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:34 am
You said Front Row now has keyboard commands, it has always had keyboard commands, even in Tiger.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Cool !
April 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
@Josh
Hmm.. My bad. I do believe though that in Tiger, without the remote you can’t even start Front Row. Or there is no icon in the apps folder at least; you may still be able to start it with cmd + ESC.
Either way, it can be a handy tip.
Thank you for correcting my error.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:40 am
CMD-Esc worked in Tiger, as did the other key commands.
Actually, i’d like to deactivate the CMD-Esc command. Sometimes when I CMD-~ to switch windows I overshoot and hit escape than have to wait 10 seconds for Front Row to appear and then Esc out of it. I groan every time I do it. If anyone knows of a simple way to kill that command I’d appreciate the tip.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Followup to myself: Not only can you deactivate the CMD-Esc Front Row hotkey by going to the Keyboard Shortcuts system pref but it is the very first entry in the list…