Amarok's "global hotkeys" become stuck often
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amarok (Ubuntu) |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: amarok
Hello! I'm using Amarok on an otherwise Gnome-exclusive Ubuntu Gutsy box.
One thing I'm very fond of is using global hotkeys to control the music player (in this case Amarok) from any application. For example, I have hotkeys set for skipping to the next track, and for showing/hiding the player's window.
The problem is that very often these become stuck. This means that I'd press a hot-key (Start-; for instance to show the player), and Amarok starts doing the given command in a loop forever. Since the show/hide command is a toggle, this means that Amarok becomes unusable (no command works anymore), and uses up all the processor time which makes it hard to kill it. Skipping to the next track has the same effect: since I use 'smart' playlists, which refill themselves as the music plays, Amarok gets into an infinite loop through my entire collection, using even more processor time.
Sometimes the show/hide bug stops if I press the shortcut a lot, but it's not easy to reproduce. Since it happens randomly, I can't think of any way of debugging this.
Seems to be a duplicate of #55585