[asskickulater]

ive tried all kinds of key combos and im out of ideas, lol.

My quesiton is this: if i hide the settings menu, is their some kind of keyboard shortcut i can use to get back to it?

[artrafael]

You can map a key to ActivateWindow(Settings) to display the System Settings window.

[asskickulater]

oh sweet,thanks! how would I go about assigning that? in the advanced settings xml?

[artrafael]

In a custom keyboard.xml (wiki) file in your userdata (wiki)/keymaps/ directory with the following contents:

Code:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <keyboard>
      <some-key>ActivateWindow(Settings)</some-key>
    </keyboard>
  </global>
</keymap>

• Substitute "some-key" with the name of the key you wish a map to this function (e.g., <f1>). Obviously, it shouldn't be a key that's already used for some existing XBMC action (see: keyboard (wiki))
  
• If you already have a keyboard.xml file in your userdata (wiki)/keymaps/ directory, then simply add the statement to map your key to ActivateWindow(Settings) in the <global> section of your existing file.
  

[asskickulater]

thanks a lot! works perfectly!