Banshee media keys under XFCE4
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:52 pm
I'm new to LMDE, long time Ubuntu user that finally got fed up with Unity/Gnome3.
After upgrading to LMDE, I couldn't get my Microsoft Natural keyboard keys to control Banshee. After some tinkering, I figured out a solution.
Open Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts.
Click add, add the following:
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous
Now you can conduct basic media player controls from your keyboard's media keys.
-Orbital
After upgrading to LMDE, I couldn't get my Microsoft Natural keyboard keys to control Banshee. After some tinkering, I figured out a solution.
Open Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts.
Click add, add the following:
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous
Now you can conduct basic media player controls from your keyboard's media keys.
-Orbital