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Brass · Jul 13, 2006, 12:57 AM

A few days ago, I was using the new MacBook, and accidentally brushed a few keys (near the top left of the keyboard, I think), and Front Row came up. At first I thought to myself, aha, so we can use the keyboard to control FrontRow without the remote if we need to. OK, great.

Trouble was, I could not find any way of getting out of FrontRow at all, and the remote control was at home (and nobody else I know anywhere near hear has a FrontRow remote control).

I eventually tried random keypresses, all to no avail (the obvious ESC and CMD-Q did nothing). In the end I had to reset the computer with the power button.

So now I'm worried that it might happen again, and I'll be forced to reboot again, potentially losing valuable work.

Anyone know how to quit Front Row without the remote control around?

PurpleGiant · Jul 13, 2006, 01:26 AM

Escape works fine here.

Velocity211 · Jul 13, 2006, 02:34 AM

Escape works fine for me, but again, I'm on a powerbook. Does force quit do anything?

Brass · Jul 13, 2006, 02:54 AM

no force quit did not do anything either. hmmm... I wonder if it was something to do with the strange way in which I invoked Front Row, or perhaps it just invoked itself.

Well, I appreciate the responses... it's good to know it should work. I'll try it again later when I have the remote handy.

harrisjamieh · Jul 13, 2006, 03:03 AM

Well, to turn front row on using the keyboard, you have to press apple key and escape. Then you can use a combination of the arrow keys, return, and escape to navigate around FR. No matter where in FR you are, you can always press any letter key to totallly get out of FR.

I also find that by pressing apple key, alt and escape will force quit FR immediatly.

Try it is a test - close all valuable work and just have a play to see if it works the way it should..

analogika · Jul 13, 2006, 08:22 AM

Apple-Esc

TETENAL · Jul 13, 2006, 09:32 AM

You don't have to hold down the command key. Escape takes you back, return acts as play/pause and you can navigate with the arrow keys. To quit Front Row with the keyboard just press ⌘Q.

cold aspiration · Jul 13, 2006, 03:14 PM

Yess, I was wondering how to do this. Thanks guys. Apple should include this in the manual

Brass · Jul 13, 2006, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by harrisjamieh

Well, to turn front row on using the keyboard, you have to press apple key and escape. Then you can use a combination of the arrow keys, return, and escape to navigate around FR. No matter where in FR you are, you can always press any letter key to totallly get out of FR.

I also find that by pressing apple key, alt and escape will force quit FR immediatly.

Try it is a test - close all valuable work and just have a play to see if it works the way it should..

Thanks for this info. It certainly does work when I try it now.

It definitely did NOT work when I accidentally invoked Front Row that first time, and got stuck there. Front Row did not respond to any keys (including ESC and arrows, and letters). So I suspect that I must have tripped up some bug that froze out my system.

Thanks to all for the help!

imitchellg5 · Jul 13, 2006, 07:33 PM

Any letter or number quits Front Row.

Brass · Jul 13, 2006, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by imitchellg5

Any letter or number quits Front Row.

Except when it was frozen, as it was on this occasion, as it turns out.