Re: [Banshee-List] Multimedia keys in Ubuntu

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

I committed yesterday a patch to make multimedia keys work under GNOME
2.18+ without the need for the old multimedia keys plugin. However, I
have not actually tested it under GNOME 2.18+ so I have no clue if it
works or not. 

Essentially, if you're running the very latest svn/trunk you should have
the correct multimedia keys support. It uses the GNOME settings daemon
over DBus, so this must be running. If the daemon cannot be contacted
over DBus, it will allow the legacy X11 plugin to load in Banshee, which
does legacy X11 multimedia keys control.

Because I am currently running GNOME 2.16, I have not fully tested the
patch. I am looking for those who can test it - please give the latest
svn/trunk a try - multimedia keys are no longer a plugin, they are
always enabled if you're running GNOME 2.18+.

--Aaron

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 13:53 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On 4/20/07, Andrew Gee <andrew webspot co uk> wrote:
> > I have just compiled banshee under ubuntu, so now I have MTP support for
> > my Creative Zen Vision:M. Yay!
> 
> Which versions of Ubuntu and Banshee?
> 
> > But unfortunately, through doing so, I have lost the ability to use the
> > multimedia keys plugin to control my music. The plugin is enabled in the
> > plugin dialog. Multimedia keys worked before, when I was using the
> > ubuntu packaged version.
> 
> The keyboard shortcuts framework (word choice?) changed for GNOME
> 2.18, so a new method is necessary. I'm assuming you're seeing some
> iteration of this. The package in Feisty has a patch to fix the issue
> [1], or you could compile SVN, which has a fix that makes Banshee work
> in 2.18 and 2.16 [2].
> 
> Ultimately, I'm assuming you're compiling for the Zen support, but it
> really revolves around which version of Ubuntu and Banshee you're
> compiling.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/87299
> [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395433#c10
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