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Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:56 pm
by rexc
After upgrading all upgradeable packages - pulling MATE and cinnamon, and using MATE for the session, nearly everything has worked.
The only thing that's broken is that my keyboard multimedia keys no longer work with rhythmbox (haven't tried another music player yet)

Looking in .xsession-errors:

(rhythmbox:25554): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys' on object at path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys

Anybody else experiencing this or know how to resolve this problem?

Re: Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:07 am
by kbkatz1
I received similar errors too.

Re: Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:04 am
by äxl
Since your using MATE and not Gnome it now wants to call for org.mate. ...
You could try compiling RB yourself or use Gnome ...
I guess you have to report it to the developers of either Rhythmbox or MATE.

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edit: Since mediakeys is a plugin we basically need an adjusted /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/mmkeys/libmmkeys.so

Re: Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:08 am
by äxl
Just to make things clear: Mediakeys are working for me in MATE.
Maybe RB doesn't recognize them but they are implemented by the DE perfecty. :heart:

Re: Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:55 am
by rexc
Yep, I believe it's the RB which is broken with MATE at the moment

Re: Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:10 am
by mileon
Same issue is in Ubuntu 12.10 too. Solution: install gstreamer-dbus-media-service

Bye

Re: Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:10 pm
by vincezd
Hi, thanks for the tip, but there is no such package for us on lmde :/

Re: Rhythmbox and multimedia keys not being picked up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:22 pm
by massalim
After installing plugins from software manager media buttons worked.