Changing Rhythmbox Reference to amaroK

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:14 pm

This was harder than I thought!
I thought i'd find something in /usr/share/gconf or the config editor - but no

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:50 am

I never use keyboard shortcuts....
You have the possibility to add a key to your musicplayer - no big deal but I looked for quite a while without finding a way to change which musicplayer. The possibility exists of course, because you've got the first choice to work, but honestly I did not find it

theoneghost · Post by **theoneghost** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:53 pm

I have this same problem. I tried using Lineakd to change it, and I tried using Keytouch to change it, but no luck. I looked all over the configuration editor looking for the ryhthmbox command invocation and found nothing.

habtool · Post by **habtool** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:05 pm

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

theoneghost · Post by **theoneghost** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:29 pm

Thanks, but this still wont help me. I took care of the others, the play pause, next, previous, stop. But what I want to change is the One button that came pre configured already. When pressed, it tries to run the command
rhythmbox
but fails. I want that command to call "amarok" instead.

habtool · Post by **habtool** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:45 pm

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

theoneghost · Post by **theoneghost** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:54 pm

Thanks. This works.

habtool · Post by **habtool** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:58 pm

Glad I could help

Stay Well

Lensman · Post by **Lensman** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:03 pm

Thanks for that tip, Habtool, it worked brilliantly.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:47 pm

This is a global change - whenever you try to start rhythmbox you start amarok - not only by the hot key (unless I miss something) Only of interest if you want both

habtool · Post by **habtool** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:25 pm

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

Linux Mint Forums

Changing Rhythmbox Reference to amaroK

This may help, worked for me..

Maybe this will help then..