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Sound menu keyboard shortcuts aren't working with VLC. Work fine with Rhythmbox/Banshee

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I enabled vlc dbus interface:

Is there a way to control VLC from the Sound Menu?

VLC now appears in the sound menu and the controls work.

However, the keyboard shortcuts configured for the media player (System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Sound and Media) for Play, "Next Track" and "previous track" aren't working. They work fine with banshee.

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answered 2 Years ago allowiel · Accepted Answer

Your command in comments seems fine. Best way to set, if using compiz, is in ccsm > Commands. (you also need to have the dbus plugin enabled.

Then for command enter as commented dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause

Enable it to the media key in the key bindings as seen in screen, here it's run command 2, when going to the set 'key combo', I just used the media play/pause on keyboard, ie. no combo

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