Changing Rhythmbox Reference to amaroK
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- theoneghost
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This may help, worked for me..
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Gn ... tent=60910
(once its installed into amrok via tools script manager, dont forget to run it at the same time.)
Description:
This script will allow the use of keyboard multimedia keys in Gnome 2.18 and above (eg. ubuntu feisty) to control playback. This includes most multimedia buttons found on many laptops. Support for this was broken due to changes in the handling of keyboard shortcuts by gnome 2.18.
Currently supported operations are:
Play/Pause
Pause
Stop
Next Track
Previous Track
Simply run the script, no configuration of the script itself is required. The desired keyboard shortcuts can be configured by selecting "System-->Prefrences-->Keyboard Shortcuts" from the Gnome pannel.
Requires:
python
python-dbus
libdbus-glib
(once its installed into amrok via tools script manager, dont forget to run it at the same time.)
Description:
This script will allow the use of keyboard multimedia keys in Gnome 2.18 and above (eg. ubuntu feisty) to control playback. This includes most multimedia buttons found on many laptops. Support for this was broken due to changes in the handling of keyboard shortcuts by gnome 2.18.
Currently supported operations are:
Play/Pause
Pause
Stop
Next Track
Previous Track
Simply run the script, no configuration of the script itself is required. The desired keyboard shortcuts can be configured by selecting "System-->Prefrences-->Keyboard Shortcuts" from the Gnome pannel.
Requires:
python
python-dbus
libdbus-glib
- theoneghost
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Maybe this will help then..
I tired the ln -s method below but it did not see any difference this time and my setup with the script works fine for my limited needs.
I did try it in ubuntu a while back when i swapped from Rhythumbox to Banshee and it worked in that instance.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... eys&page=2
Indeed thanks very much script works wonderfully.
As for getting Amarok to load with the media key on your keyboard, first go to keyboard shortcuts and assign "Launch Media Player" to the key. As youve mentioned its hardcoded to Rhythmbox annoyingly, so a fix I found in another thread which works brilliantly is creating a symlink:
Code:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/amarok /usr/local/bin/rhythmbox
I did try it in ubuntu a while back when i swapped from Rhythumbox to Banshee and it worked in that instance.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... eys&page=2
Indeed thanks very much script works wonderfully.
As for getting Amarok to load with the media key on your keyboard, first go to keyboard shortcuts and assign "Launch Media Player" to the key. As youve mentioned its hardcoded to Rhythmbox annoyingly, so a fix I found in another thread which works brilliantly is creating a symlink:
Code:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/amarok /usr/local/bin/rhythmbox
- theoneghost
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Husse , Yes it is global.
Its a workaround while gnome does not allow one to change the default media player. (hard coded etc)
There is a bug report at bugzilla, so maybe it may be fixed one day.
If you want rhythmbox i am sure a link pointing to it directly at /usr/bin will load it? Will test later, just playing with XFCE beta 3 mint now
Its a workaround while gnome does not allow one to change the default media player. (hard coded etc)
There is a bug report at bugzilla, so maybe it may be fixed one day.
If you want rhythmbox i am sure a link pointing to it directly at /usr/bin will load it? Will test later, just playing with XFCE beta 3 mint now