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[Belarathon]

Greetings:

Over the last few weeks, I've installed Media Center on a number of distros, including Manjaro, MX, K/L/Ubuntu and Mint.
Once I ditched integrated graphics for a dedicated card, it turned out to be an experience comparable to the performance I enjoy in the Windows environment.  However, there's been a recurring theme in each installation:  Let's say you're in theater mode, watching a video, and you hit the back button to return to the prior screen, listing any number of videos:  Once the playing now screen goes the the previous screen, there's a small video preview screen in the upper right corner, and it steals focus from both my remote, and the PC keyboard.  One must use a mouse to get focus off of it.  I couldn't get a screenshot of the bug, but the screen shows two items focused in this situation - both the video that was just viewed, and the small preview screen. You can tell they are both focused because there is a pane of faux glass (Obsidian theme) surrounding both items.  In frustration, I finally restored my Windows installation, and in  Windows, the preview does not steal focus. Kind of a deal breaker for me and Linux, and i really do want to make the switch.

Recommendations?

[Belarathon]

Literally nobody has encountered this?  I navigate to a place that I simply can't get out of without a mouse.  Is no one else using Media Center in Linux as a "ten-foot" interface?  Would it be possible for me to edit the skin to not show the preview window?

[Awesome Donkey]

It might depend on the desktop environment you're using (e.g. GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, etc.). I know there were focus issues with KDE Plasma in the past.

[Belarathon]

It wasn't the desktop environment; it was the distro!  I recall reading that Media Center was developed and tested using Debian, so I installed Buster this evening.  Low and behold, the issue is gone.  All Debian based distros had the issue, except Debian.

Correction:  It seems to have been Wine.  I installed it on Debian and focus was being stolen again. Uninstalled it, and all was fine.  At least, that seems to be the case.

[Belarathon]

Nah, that wasn't it. It seems to be a hit and miss thing.  As a workaround, I have toggled to a different list view, that of the flying horizontal thumbnails.  Not as useful as the other view, but certainly is impressive to see.

[bob]

Trying to reproduce this, how do you go "back"? Can this be done with a keyboard? I hit the back arrow and it just goes back in the movie.
If I can get the window to show up like you do I have an idea about what's going on.