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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and audacious as audio player.I am using a lenovo G460 notebook.It has keys which can play music.They work with Amarok. But , I want to make them work with Audacious.Can anyone help me?

Yomal Amarathunge
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You just need go to File -> Preferences then navigate to Plugins -> General and check both Global Hotkey and Gnome Shortcuts.

pevik
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  • No problem, I'm glad I was able to help. – Maduka Jayalath Nov 03 '13 at 06:37
  • is there a similar way to achieve the same for Amorok? – FranBran Dec 02 '15 at 20:54
  • @DERIIIFranz You can find answer here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/56321/how-to-bind-play-pause-key-to-amarok – Maduka Jayalath Dec 03 '15 at 19:02
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    I wonder where are these plugins in Audacious 4 (which uses Qt 5). – pevik Mar 30 '20 at 05:47
  • @pevik I think you need to install plugins separately on version 4 – Maduka Jayalath Mar 31 '20 at 13:15
  • @MadukaJayalath that plugin was packaged (in Debian package) for version 3. I guess it's not compatible with version 4, otherwise it'd be packaged. – pevik Mar 31 '20 at 18:39
  • @pevik Have a look on their download page, they said they have separated it for two, https://audacious-media-player.org/download – Maduka Jayalath Apr 01 '20 at 13:36
  • @MadukaJayalath yes, there are 2 files to download, but that's not the problem. Looking into [git](https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins/tree/master/src) repository, hotkey plugin has not been ported to QT (ported plugins have `-qt` suffix). Debian uses still GTK port for 4.0, therefore there is `hotkey.so` plugin in [audacious-plugins](https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/audacious-plugins/filelist) package. But [openSUSE already builds QT](https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/multimedia:apps/audacious/audacious.changes?expand=1) thus plugin is not available. – pevik Apr 14 '20 at 09:44
  • Ah, there is already ongoing progress :) https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins/pull/86 – pevik Apr 14 '20 at 09:48
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    FYI plugin got merged into master: https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins/commit/975021930b8a75fcfb12edd547c1e13f41db65ed – pevik Apr 21 '20 at 08:02
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    Compiled and loaded manually. Works perfectly, it even remember my settings from GTK. – pevik Apr 22 '20 at 16:32