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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    kdeextragear-1/doc/amarok
From:       Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <admin () leinir ! dk>
Date:       2004-11-30 20:31:57
Message-ID: 20041130203157.058061BA3F () office ! kde ! org
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CVS commit by leinir: 

Adding new FAQ section for Tips and Tricks - Added tips: Using amaroK as an alarm \
clock and getting Now Playing info from another computer


  M +44 -1     faq.docbook   1.21


--- kdeextragear-1/doc/amarok/faq.docbook  #1.20:1.21
@@ -400,3 +400,46 @@
 </sect1>
 
-</chapter>
\ No newline at end of file
+<sect1 id="tips">
+<title>Tips &amp; Tricks</title>
+
+<qandaset id="tricks">
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para>
+How do I use &amarok; as an alarm clock?
+</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>
+Actually, thanks to the magic of DCOP you already can :) Simply set an alarm in your \
favourite calendar program and tell it to run the following command: +</para>
+<para><prompt>&percnt;</prompt><command>dcop amarok player play</command></para>
+<para>
+This command will tell &amarok; to start playing. Make sure that &amarok; is running \
before you go to bed, and you should wake up to the merry tune of whatever you \
pressed stop on before going to bed. +</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para>
+How do I get what &amarok; is playing right now, when I'm on another computer?
+</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>
+If you have a properly set up ssh environment, you can use that to get the \
information. The following command will return the Now Playing string +</para>
+<para><prompt>&percnt;</prompt><command>ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa yourip dcop --user \
yourusername amarok player nowPlaying</command></para> +<para>
+Make sure that you replace yourip with your IP and yourusername with your username. \
Also note that this expects your identification to be found in the ~/.ssh/id_rsa \
file. +</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+
+</qandaset>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>


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