Media-keys not changing track about tauon HOT 4 CLOSED

I used to hook key input directly from the X server. But I didn't get the feeling this was a great way of doing things. GNOME and KDE are both providing media player control themselves now. So I removed that functionality to clean up some dependencies.

Unfortunately it means media keys won't work out the box on other desktop environments. But you can add the shortcuts manually in XFCE. If you go to Settings Manager > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts

You can set the following commands, and bind them to any shortuct/key:

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.tauon /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.tauon /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.tauon /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.tauon /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous

BTW I just found a bug that conflicts with this causing it to not work sometimes, Ill need to fix that, but you can work around it by making sure the notifications setting is disabled in Tauon, go to Menu > Settings... > View > Show track notifications

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I don't think ill add native support for this back. It mainly comes down to:

• Adds extra code and dependencies. Desktop environments are generally moving away from X, and no longer the 'correct' way to do things for the Linux desktop.
• Finding, detecting and whitelisting which DE/WM supports what is complicated.
• Hooking the X server is a small security concern, it would mean all keyboard input would be passing through the media player, I'm not sure users would want this.
• The previous library I was using for this has a conflicting license.

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Using the dbus-send commands works fine.

Thanks for the great music player 👍

from tauon.

Thanks for the kind words. And apologies I haven't provided more of an ideal solution here.

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