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#1 2013-02-07 20:18:11

ninjaprawn
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From: Manchester, UK
Registered: 2008-01-26
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[solved] how can I launch Deadbeef minimised to tray?

Hi.... I currently have deadbeef launch in my openbox autostart script, and it starts playing, has a tray icon, but the gui jumps up to. I then have to close the gui, and it minimises to the tray. I want to find a way of skipping the last step.... either have deadbeef launch minimised, or a command to close deadbeef in the same way that clicking the X does..... not had much joy with google.... maanged to get this to work with transmission, as it has a "-m" argument.

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2013-02-08 10:10:14)


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#2 2013-02-07 20:38:29

2ManyDogs
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Re: [solved] how can I launch Deadbeef minimised to tray?

Can you set properties for DeadBeef in rc.xml? Of course if you do this, DeadBeef will always open minimized...

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Applications


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#3 2013-02-07 21:09:22

ninjaprawn
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Re: [solved] how can I launch Deadbeef minimised to tray?

yes, i can set properties for deadbeef in rc.xml however I am not sure how to set this for deadbeef to start up in the tray only.... the closest option is to start it iconified, which isnt what I am after........

after a lot of googling, there isnt a direct way to get deadbeef to do this.... what i need is the following;
deadbeef /my/playlist.pls && <some command> deadbeef

where <some command> has the same effect as clicking the x on deadbeef


2007 - Started using Arch Linux as my only/main OS
- Samsung Series 3, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz - 8Gb DDR3 ram - 700Gb HDD
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#4 2013-02-08 01:06:31

dag
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Re: [solved] how can I launch Deadbeef minimised to tray?

install wmctrl and then make shellscript

#!/bin/sh
deadbeef  &
sleep 3
wmctrl -c deadbeef

make it executable and autostart


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#5 2013-02-08 10:09:43

ninjaprawn
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From: Manchester, UK
Registered: 2008-01-26
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Re: [solved] how can I launch Deadbeef minimised to tray?

dag wrote:

install wmctrl and then make shellscript

#!/bin/sh
deadbeef  &
sleep 3
wmctrl -c deadbeef

make it executable and autostart

perfect.... i just changed the line in my autostart to ....
deadbeef /my/playlist.pls && wmctrl -c deadbeef &

i saw this somewhere else, but there was no mention of installing wmctrl... thanks smile


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