Could Xfmedia have support for the XF86Audio* keys? This is the only thing keeping me with Beep Media Player right now :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
have you tried mapping them to keys via the keybindings editor? xfmedia shouldn't need to do anything special here. you may need to make sure they're recognised by X properly, using xmodmap, but since you've used them with beep before, i assume they already work.
I'm referring to having them control Xfmedia even when it isn't in focus (ala the beep/xmms xf86audio plugin). Setting them in the keybindings they only work when Xfmedia is the active window, Beep and most other players support using them as "global shortcuts" that work even when the window is hidden or in the background.
ah, then what you *really* want is remote control of a running instance from the command line. i'm not going to implement so-called 'global shortcuts', as that has the potential to interfere with the WM or other apps.
Yes, that would be good too (actually, that would even be slightly *more* useful, as it could be used with ssh to control xfmedia running on a remote machine. :)
Something like this would be nice. :) I'll need more than 10 keybindings in XFCE's window manager though! :) xfmedia [option] file(s) -r, --rew Skip backwards in playlist -p, --play Start playing current playlist -u, --pause Pause current song -s, --stop Stop current song -t, --play-pause Pause if playing, play otherwise -f, --fwd Skip forward in playlist -e, --enqueue Don't clear the playlist -m, --hide/show playlist Toggle main window view to systray
xfmedia-remote binary implemented in SVN. I think there are a few bugs in on the server-side of the remote control interface, but I'll deal with those later. If you encounter them, please open new bugs, one issue per bug.