Bug 2834 - cant open console from menus
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2741
Alias: None
Product: Tremulous
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Misc
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Tim Angus
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Reported: 2006-08-17 14:36 EDT by Pavel
Modified: 2006-08-25 13:17:42 EDT
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Description Pavel 2006-08-17 14:36:12 EDT 
I have toggleconsole bound to "^" which works fine ingame, but if I press this key in the main menu nothing happens.
Tremulous on Linux with Xorg7, GNOME 2.14 and german charmap.
Comment 1 Christophe Cavalaria 2006-08-23 16:55:23 EDT 
This goes with what I said about the console handling in Quake 3 beeing a gross hack.

The game hardcodes any key combination producing a ~ as the console key. Only by pressing a key that produces a ~ can you open and close the console anywhere. The toggleconsole bind only works ingame with the console closed.
Comment 2 Pavel 2006-08-23 18:07:37 EDT 
wow, thanks, that sucks - but at least I dont have to join random games anymore to play a demo...
Comment 3 Tony J. White 2006-08-25 13:17:42 EDT 
I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 2741 since it's really an upstream problem with Q3's international keyboard support.  A fix for this would have to be a fix to ioquake3.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2741 ***