Media keys aren't working (Ubuntu 11.10, Pithos latest daily)

[RJP Computing]

Not sure if you have seen this, but the Play/Pause media key does not work anymore for Pithos.

It seems the solution is to call GrabMediaPlayerKeys method. I am only summarizing what others have said, but really miss this feature and hope it is easy for you to fix.

References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/860600

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660549#c4

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660706#c4

Thanks for such a great application.

[Kevin Mehall (kevin-mehall)]

Thanks for pointing me to those posts. Several other users have reported this, but I didn't have a chance to look into it.

Can you test bzr r177 and see if it solves this problem?

Quit Pithos, then in a terminal,
bzr branch lp:pithos pithos
cd pithos
./bin/pithos

[RJP Computing (rpusztai)]

I tried your changes and they worked great. Can't wait for a release.

Again thanks for being so prompt and for such a great application.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

This has now been released in 0.3.14

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello RJP, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pithos into oneiric-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pithos - 0.3.10-1ubuntu3

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pithos (0.3.10-1ubuntu3) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Sync clock to avoid "You have no chance to survive make your time"
    error from Pandora on start (LP: #743198)
  * Fix media key support, broken in Oneiric (LP: #902322)
 -- Luke Faraone <email address hidden> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:13:45 -0500