Global shortcuts not working

[marleesa]

Customised global shortcut keys don't work when amarok window isn't in focus after latest updates for feisty. Default shorctut combinations still work properly

[televator (televator)]

I can confirm this bug. In fact, every costumized shortcuts don't work at all at my ubuntu feisty. The default shortcuts work properly, too.

Ubuntu Feisty;
Gnome, Amarok;
everything up-to-date (on 03.21)

[marleesa (marleesa)]

resetting the global shortcuts to default, closing the configuration menu, then going back in and setting them to whatever the custom combinations was seems to fix the problem.

[televator (televator)]

You're right, it helped... but I still have a problem with my keyboard's speicial keys. Amarok noticed the XF86AudioPause in the settings, but it still doesn't work.

[marleesa (marleesa)]

My keyboard special keys are detected by amarok but haven't worked since 6.04. Mind you, they didn't work with WMP in XP either so I don't bother using them. Every time update a package the shortcuts seem to need resetting regardless of whether amarok was updated.

[PooyaPlus (pooya-zarei)]

Resetting shortcuts didn't help for multimedia special keys in Ubuntu 7.04. Seems confusing.

[MidnightRunner8 (joe-drugan)]

My media buttons are detected in the Global Shortcuts and the mute, volume up, and volume down work for the system. Pause/Play, track buttons, and stop does not work with Amarok. Amarok is the best, and it's awful not having this feature. Hope this gets fixed soon.

[jundtho (thomas-jund)]

I was able to get Play/Pause, Stop, Next and Previous running when I configured the buttons in Global Shortcuts as Alternate shortcuts. With Primary shortcuts, I faced the same problem as described :/

[Michael Ambrus (ambrmi09)]

I have the same problem and I tried to follow the suggestions here without success :(

I did however find another solution that works though:
http://lineak.sourceforge.net/

(It's among the packages in the normal Ubuntu feeds b.t.w.)

- Just install the lineakd package
- run the lineakd in a console and follow the instructions given
- Then edit the config-file for lineakd as follows and re-run:

Next = amarok -f
Play|Pause = amarok -t
Previous = amarok -r

It might not be the tidiest solution but at least it will get the job done until this is solved properly.

(This comment related to AmaroK 1.4.3)

[Nishant (nishant-singh28)]

just save your custom shortcuts as the default for the profile..it works