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
Banshee media keys under XFCE4
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Banshee media keys under XFCE4
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Re: Banshee media keys under XFCE4
Or you could just go the simpler route ...Orbital_sFear wrote: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
banshee --next
banshee --previous
banshee --stop
banshee --toggle-playing
the beauty of linux is that the rabbit hole goes as deep as you want it to go.
Re: Banshee media keys under XFCE4
Thanks, I didn't know banshee could accept the commands like that.
-Orbital
-Orbital
Re: Banshee media keys under XFCE4
Both ways work, but the way Orbital_sFear suggested is much faster. If someone wants to implement a hotkey to Stop too, here is the command using qdbus:
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop
qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop