I wish to assign Ctrl+Space to rhythmbox play/pause but cannot figure out how to do so using the keyboard menu, for whenever I try, it is disabled for i do not know what i am meant to type into the shortcut field.
When rhythmbox is installed, there is a command based application called rhythmbox-client that can be used to control various aspects of Rhythmbox itself.
rhythmbox-client uses a process communication protocol called DBUS. Its the same protocol that the Unity Sound Indicator menu uses.
You need to ensure that this plugin is enabled in Rhythmbox
Launch Keyboard from the Unity Dash.
The important part is the command and assigning the short-cut itself.
The command you need to use is rhythmbox-client --play-pause
If you run rhythmbox-client --help this will give you a list of command line options which you can control Rhythmbox.
The most useful options for keyboard control are:
--quit Quit Rhythmbox
--next Jump to next song
--previous Jump to previous song
--seek Seek in current track
--play Resume playback if currently paused
--pause Pause playback if currently playing
--play-pause Toggle play/pause mode
--enqueue Add specified tracks to the play queue
--clear-queue Empty the play queue before adding new tracks
--print-playing Print the title and artist of the playing song
--print-playing-format Print formatted details of the song
--set-volume Set the playback volume
--volume-up Increase the playback volume
--volume-down Decrease the playback volume
--print-volume Print the current playback volume
--set-rating Set the rating of the current song
There are other options which you can use in - for example - shell scripts as well.
