EventGhost

just use the standard xbmx2 plugin , it will send all events to xbmc no matter if its the active window or not

i'm having the exact same problem. very annoying..
did you find a solution ?

Well XBMC2\Buttons\Remote\Display works the same as Tab , but I'll add it just because you asked nicely (and because I added it before I checked the difference between Tab and Display :oops: ).

jonib

ah right, Display works fine too! missed that one...
anyway thnx again for the quick mod to your ...

why i prefer enter over select is because when playing a video enter behaves as the menu, opening the top controls, which i use a lot to download subtitles & backspace closes that menu again. so instead of having to use different rc keys for select/menu/back/escape I can actually control all of ...

You did not follow my instructions... kill VMWARE.EXE and nothing else. It will only kill the UI and keep the VM running.

I suspect your problem is isolated to your setup... I run VMware Player 24x7 (runs my home automation software) on my HTPC which runs XBMC & Win7 MC and I have zero problems ...

I run VMware workstation/player on my HTPC and EG works perfectly fine for me. I don't know what version you run, but if it is 7 or 8 (only versions I've used on the same machine with XBMC & EG) then I suspect your problem is that you have a VMware setting capturing all keyboard commands and/or the ...

i tried them both : XBMC2\Actions & XBMC2\Remote , but none do exactly what i want them to do.
I'll try the remote.xml keymapping workaround, thanks for the suggestion. I could add the Backspace and enter keyboard buttons to my plugin, but I would like to know why you prefer them?

Edit: I have ...

i tried them both : XBMC2\Actions & XBMC2\Remote , but none do exactly what i want them to do.
I'll try the remote.xml keymapping workaround, thanks for the suggestion.

still weird tho that vmware somehow steals the emulated keystrokes from reaching the designated program..

I have one computer on which i do everything, its my media player with XBMC but also my test station running VMWare Workstation to test out new stuff..
VMWare Workstation runs beside XBMC and EventGhost, so I'm not trying to get it working inside a VM.

I use a MS MCE remote controller and use the ...