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Fred7109

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Registered: 2015-05-17

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How to send media keys to window

Hello,

I am running Tidal via the tidal-music-linux package on GitHub, link: https://github.com/Bunkerbewohner/tidal-music-linux, because I wanted to be able to use the media keys with Tidal. I then installed the package and running it works just fine, but I can't get the hotkeys to work. I've tried with xdotool:

xdotool key --window [window] XF86AudioPause

From the main.js, please see below, I understand that I need to send the keys "MediaPreviousTrack", "MediaNextTrack", "MediaPlayPause", "MediaStop". However, I don't know how to send media keys, despite using xdotool - which don't work.

  // handle media keys
  var routeShortcuts = ["MediaPreviousTrack", "MediaNextTrack", "MediaPlayPause", "MediaStop"]
  routeShortcuts.forEach(shortcut => {
    if (!globalShortcut.register(shortcut, function() {
      mainWindow.webContents.send("playback-control", shortcut)
    })) {
      console.log("Failed to register shortcut", shortcut, "Is your desktop environment already handling it?"$
    }
  })

Any help regarding the issue would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by Fred7109 (2017-07-08 17:16:20)

evilteemo

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Registered: 2016-11-12

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Re: How to send media keys to window

Hi,

take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbindkeys

I once had luck with this ;-)

Fred7109

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Registered: 2015-05-17

Posts: 134

Re: How to send media keys to window

Hello evilteemo,

Thank you for the reply!

I use sxhkd instead of Xbindkeys, as they both can create hotkeys that activates a command which, for example, with Xdotool, can send a given key to the Tidal window. However, my problem is that the keys I send to the Tidal window don't activate the function as described above - eg. to shift song with "MediaNextTrack".

Last edited by Fred7109 (2017-07-09 16:34:55)

evilteemo

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Re: How to send media keys to window

I see.
Maybe you should try with some of these automation tools:

https://wiki.actiona.tools/doku.php?id=en:start
https://code.google.com/archive/p/autokey/
http://www.sikuli.org/

Fred7109

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Registered: 2015-05-17

Posts: 134

Re: How to send media keys to window

Thank you for the help evilteemo, I will look into your proposals and see whether I can work something out.