pause on suspend/hibernate

[Danielle Foré]

On suspend or hibernate, pause should be sent out to all media players.

Nothing like closing your notebook at home, and opening it somewhere else with your music blaring XD

[Allen Lowe (lallenlowe)]

is there a dbus api that all music players share for this or something? Or am I only gonna support BeatBox?

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

If it's possible, we should do whatever happens when you press the pause media key on the keyboard. In that way it's respected by music and video players.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

The best choice should be MPRIS. BeatBox is going to support as far as I was told, and further more Audacious, Banshee, Rhythmbox, XMMS and VLC support it (to different degrees):

http://xmms2.org/wiki/MPRIS

[Jason Anderson (ertain)]

I have tried tackling this problem.

It looks like we need to add a script to /etc/pm/sleep.d

[Jason Anderson (ertain)]

...and use dbus to pause the media players. When the computer is about to go to sleep it fires off a signal on dbus to the listening programs. I have enclosed the script which may make this work.

[Jason Anderson (ertain)]

Okay, I think this little feature is ready for testing. If anyone wants, they can clone my branch and test it out.

[Cameron Norman (cameronnemo)]

You need to listen for the PrepareForSleep() signal in Noise and pause the music when you get that signal.

www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit/

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

I believe this should be a system-wide pause command (MPRIS) and should not be limited to only VLC. I don't think the player should care what sleep state the system is in.

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

Sorry, read should not be limited only to Noise.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Moved to https://github.com/elementary/videos/issues/4