Notifications on key-press

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jrhgkjrgnk
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Notifications on key-press

Post by jrhgkjrgnk »

In my opinion it would be great to get the notifications on key-press.
Lets say you are listening to a long playlist while working at your pc. It would be great to just press a key and the notification came up.

what do you think?
mekanix
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Notifications on key-press

Post by mekanix »

you mean a notification of the current song details??
tamalet
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Notifications on key-press

Post by tamalet »

I think that there is a specification that has to be respected that says when a music player should show notifications.
But I'm sure this could be done with some external script that could be bound to a global shortcut.
mekanix
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Notifications on key-press

Post by mekanix »

@jrhgkjrgnk

I have written a small perl script which show a notification with cover art (if available) and current track info. If you're interested, PM me and I will send you it with small instructions.
camaron
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Notifications on key-press

Post by camaron »

mekanix wrote:@jrhgkjrgnk

I have written a small perl script which show a notification with cover art (if available) and current track info. If you're interested, PM me and I will send you it with small instructions.
Well done mekanix,

If you had the time maybe you could write a small "how to" to put it somewhere in the documentation.

I would be very nice toopen a section for scripts or any other tweaks from people so they are all easily accessible by everyone.
mekanix
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Notifications on key-press

Post by mekanix »

Hi camaron, I have to fix some problems in the script and then I will do this
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