howto associate dell multimedia keys with amarok in gnome??

thanks a lot. now it is how I wanted to be. keytouch was not necessary. the first howto worked well.
thank you markus..:)

Hi,

The problem with deleting the shortcuts in "System/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts" is that you then loose their functionality in gnome applications such as rhythmbox or totem.

Although this may work as a solution I believe I have a better one which allows the shortcuts to remain active in all gnome applications you may use and also work in amarok or kaffeine.

Just download my little amarok script from my website (http://chris.scotland.googlepages.com/) or directly from the amarok script manager. its called "gnome media keys".

Hope someone finds this useful.

Cheers

awesome!
this made the media keys work for the keyspan PRUS2 remote
http://www.keyspan.com/products/prus2/
it now works with ubuntu 8.04 and amarok
cheers

I meant BrowneR 's script for running amarok:
http://chris.scotland.googlepages.com/

I had trouble as this script hangs..

24759 is us, dont kill!
detected GNOME v2.24
Using new dbus location

hangs at this point.
no error. any ideas?

it doesn't hang
it simply make the commands work. start Amarok, run the script, and press the multimedia keys.. you'll see it works just fine..

it work, yes and no, it only work when amarok is active on the desktop, if you minimize it or put it in the system tray, the keys doesn't work !

so any trick to make it work all around ?

That's very odd. It should work regardless of whether Amarok is minimised or not as the script runs all the time in the background and is not part of the main Amarok process.

I have no problems like this.

Can I suggest you remove any keybindings you have set in amarok's global shortcuts menu and then make sure the correct shortcuts are selected in the gnome "System-->Prefrences-->Keyboard Shortcuts" menu. Then maybe remove and reinstall the script and restart Amarok.

Figners crossed that will fix it for you.

the fingers crossed didn't work !!

any suggestions ?

i did everythings, still not working.

It's very strange that it only works when Amarok is maximised.

Sorry Patrice I can't think what might be the problem. :(

You could try opening Amarok and then also opening a terminal window and running the script separately to see if there are any errors.

1) Open amarok
2) Open terminal and type:
3) python ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/gnome_media_keys/gnome_media_keys.py

Let me know if you get any errors and then try minimising Amarok and testing the buttons. Good luck!

hi

now after removing the global shorcut , make sure that the correct shortcuts are selected in the gnome "System-->Prefrences-->Keyboard Shortcuts" menu, start the script (in console no error seem there)
nothing work now !! not even when maximize :(

i did more test when i send the "dcop amarok player stop or next or playpause " in console that work, even with amarok minimize, it seem to miss the connection in between the key and the action....

finaly i made it work, without the script, and by disable the gnome keyboard shortcut, and set up the global shortcut in amarok and do xmodmap -pke | grep XF86Audio in terminal and find out that i had a couple of doublon !!! so i clear the file and now everything work everywhere !!! thx for all

ok, glad you got it working.

What file did you delete, Patrice?

it'S not a file , it's inside a file do in terminal

xmodmap -pke | grep XF86Audio

and see if you have things in double
you should have somethings like that !!

keycode 121 = XF86AudioMute NoSymbol XF86AudioMute NoSymbol XF86AudioMute
keycode 122 = XF86AudioLowerVolume NoSymbol XF86AudioLowerVolume NoSymbol XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 123 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume NoSymbol XF86AudioRaiseVolume NoSymbol XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 171 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 172 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 173 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 174 = XF86AudioStop

make sure that in System-->Prefrences-->Keyboard Shortcuts those specific key are disable after go in amarok setting -->configure shortcut and assign the action whith the media key in the global section.

should work !!

Thank you for the response!