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abhidg

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From: City of Kol

Registered: 2006-07-01

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multimedia keys control depending on application

Many applications do not natively support play/pause and stop keys; but they do support control from the command line. What I did was to create a script which would be called everytime the multimedia button would be pressed; and according to which application is active, that action would be applicable to that app.

#!/bin/bash
# Program to toggle playing in whichever application
# is the focussed one.

# Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg@gmail.com>

focus=`xdpyinfo | grep focus | cut -c 16-24`

info=`xprop -id $focus | grep WM_CLASS | cut -c 20-`

if [[ "$info" =~ .*Audacious.* ]]
then
  audacious --play-pause
elif [[ "$info" =~ .*Totem.* ]]
then
  totem --play-pause
else
  mpc toggle
fi

Hope it will be useful to some of you