Some browsers "hog" the media keys, so to speak, even if you've selected them to affect a certain application through Mint's settings. The specifics behind how to disable this depend on your browser, but here's the current list of how to do this (if you use a different browser and manage to locate the equivalent setting, post it so I can add it to this list!). Keep in mind, this will completely disable your media keys from being able to affect the browser, so if you are looking for a solution specifically to get the actual settings in Mint to 100% work, unfortunately, this may not be the solution you're looking for. In any case:
Google Chrome:
- Enter
chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling
into the Chrome search bar. - To the very right of the highlighted option should be a dropdown currently set to "Default."
- Set this to "Disabled," and restart Chrome when prompted.
- Go to
about:config
. - Find
media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled
. - Set this to False and restart Firefox.
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Original post
I can't seem to get my audio control buttons (play/pause, skip, rewind) to link to Spotify; it always defaults to Chrome. I had an instance where suddenly it was working properly, but have not been able to replicate it. It only lasted maybe a day.
I'm making sure that I have Spotify selected under "Choose player controls," but I'm relatively new to Mint and don't know what else to look at.
I should also mention that when using Bluetooth headphones, the audio controls work in exactly the same way; they're able to communicate with my laptop, but once it's there, it still gets the wrong application.
Here is my system information:
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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-58-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.7
tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81YK v: IdeaPad 5 15IIL05 serial: <superuser required>
Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 5 15IIL05 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
v: DPCN45WW date: 07/06/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.0 Wh (97.1%) condition: 41.2/45.0 Wh (91.5%) volts: 12.3 min: 11.1
model: Celxpert L19C3PF4 serial: <filter> status: N/A
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 cache:
L1: 320 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3291 high: 3638 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 3590 2: 3229 3: 3155 4: 3045
5: 3638 6: 3164 7: 3044 8: 3465 bogomips: 23961
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel ports:
active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:8a52
Device-2: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-5:3
chip-ID: 13d3:56ff
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3520x1428 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: HDMI-1 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,top-left model: Samsung C24F390 res: 1920x1080
dpi: 94 diag: 598mm (23.5")
Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,bottom-r res: 1600x900 dpi: 118 diag: 395mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics (ICL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-icl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:34c8
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-58-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:34f0
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0026
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
sub-v: 237e
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 94.16 GiB (19.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530 SDBPMPZ-512G-1101 size: 476.94 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 33.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 94.15 GiB (20.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 32.8 MiB (1.6%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 046d:c534
Device-2: 3-5:3 info: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 13d3:56ff
Device-3: 3-7:4 info: Elan Micro ELAN:Fingerprint type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 04f3:0c58
Device-4: 3-10:5 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0026
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2460 apt: 2456 snap: 4
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list
1: deb https: //repo.nordvpn.com//deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //mirror.scd31.com/mint vera main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/slgobinath-gcalendar-jammy.list
1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/slgobinath-gcalendar-jammy.gpg] https: //ppa.launchpadcontent.net/slgobinath/gcalendar/ubuntu jammy main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http: //packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
Processes: 352 Uptime: 2d 18h 43m Memory: 11.38 GiB used: 7.99 GiB (70.2%) Init: systemd v: 249
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Client: Unknown python3.10 client inxi: 3.3.13