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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE Sunset Amarok
From:       Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2012-07-23 4:06:40
Message-ID: pan.2012.07.23.04.06.40 () cox ! net
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Brent Busby posted on Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:41:22 -0500 as excerpted:

> [amarok for kde4] feels slow and unresponsive, and from my brief usage
> of the program, it doesn't seem to support global (desktop-wide) hotkeys
> -- you have to focus its window to make it do things like advance to
> the next track.

While I'd guess clementine (as already discussed in another subthread) is 
what you're really looking for, this point hadn't been addressed yet...

As I said in other subthreads, I found another solution (mpd and front-
ends) for me, but I do run kde4, and AFAIK amarok has native global hotkey 
support there.  It's simply configured in kde(4) settings, as one might 
expect for global kde4 desktop settings if one thinks about it, instead 
of in the app itself.  With kde4-amarok installed, if you look in kde4 
settings, common appearance and behavior, shortcuts and gestures, global 
keyboard shortcuts, in the kde component dropdown there should be an 
entry for amarok.  Select it, and you should get the usual global hotkey 
configuration options, for amarok.

If you're not using kde4 as your desktop, then as elsewhere mentioned, it 
should still be configurable using whatever global hotkey app's generic 
hotkey configuration mechanism and command-line or dbus calls.

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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


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