topic Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working in Desktop (Linux)

Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

BlackEco — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:34:25 GMT

Hello,

It's probably a duplicate of Forward and back keyboard shortcut feature no longer working on Mac, but I cannot longer use Ctrl + Left Arrow and Ctrl + Right Arrow to change tracks on Linux.

The regression seems to have appeared on version 1.1.67.586.gbb5ef64e since I get it working by reverting to version 1.1.55.498.gf9a83c60

OS: Ubuntu, Spotify installed with snap.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

P6CG — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:00 GMT

I'm having the same issue as well...

Also I can't use CTRL Up/Down arrows to increase/decrease volume anymore.

Ubuntu 20.04

Installed with apt-get by following below guide for Ubuntu:

https://www.spotify.com/de/download/linux/

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

Vinnaren1 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:30:50 GMT

Same here on Manjaro 21.1.2 Pahvo with XFCE, I am still able to use shortcuts like ctrl+a to select all songs in a playlist and ctrl+s and ctrl+r to control shuffle and repeat but unable to use ctrl+arrowkey to skip or control volume. Shift+left and shift+right seems to also still be working for scrubbing a track.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

Sebasty — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:41:44 GMT

I couldn't figure out a way to skip tracks. Shift + arrow keys do work at seeking within tracks and if i remember correctly, it used to be a way to skip tracks on Linux.

I use global keyboard shortcuts to skip and pause/play, which have worked perfectly fine so far and work on the new versions too. You choose a keyboard shortcut to bind the commands to, and the commands themselves look like this (admittedly long)

skip: dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous toggle playback: dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause

You can paste the command in terminal and see if it works first.

So if all else fails, this should have you covered. Unfortunately volume does not work through this function, Spotify seems to ignore the volume command.

Hope this helps in any way : )

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

BlackEco — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:16:43 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion, but I just expect Spotify to fix the issue on their end. They introduced a regression by breaking a couple of keyboard shortcuts, they should not expect us to fix this issue by ourselves.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

1maaa — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:22:17 GMT

Same problem here on Ubuntu 18.04 and Spotify Client 1.1.67.586.gbb5ef64e

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

Pharass — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:21:45 GMT

After last update 1:1.1.67.586.gbb5ef64e on Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Down (volume) and Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Right (prev/next song) shortcuts doesn't work for me anymore.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

netpok — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:32:34 GMT

Yes, broken for me too. To be specific we are talking about the in app shortcuts and not the global ones.

For now I reverted to 1:1.1.55 via:

sudo apt install spotify-client=1:1.1.55*

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

ewangreen4 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 17:22:25 GMT

On Linux, Spotify uses the MPRIS D-Bus interface for its media controls.

If the default keybinds are off/won't work, a very easy way to use this is by installing playerctl.

Once you've installed it, you can then use xdotool or something to relay commands based on the key you press.

For me, I just have it set in my DE's keyboard settings.

If you want to specify that these keybinds are for Spotify only, you can append --player spotify at the end.

Also, if you want something that will show a banner with the current song info, I made a script for that a while ago:

#!/bin/bash if [ `playerctl metadata --format "{{ playerName }}"` = spotify ] then wget -q -O ~/.cache/cover `playerctl metadata mpris:artUrl | sed "s/open\.spotify\.com/i.scdn.co/"` notify-send "`playerctl metadata --format "{{ artist }} - {{ title }}"`" "`playerctl metadata --format "{{ album }}"`" -i ~/.cache/cover -t 1 rm ~/.cache/cover elif [ `playerctl metadata --format "{{ playerName }}"` = firefox ] then notify-send "`playerctl metadata --format "{{ playerName }} - {{ title }}"`" "`playerctl metadata --format "{{ artist }}"`" -t 1 else notify-send "`playerctl metadata --format "{{ artist }} - {{ title }}"`" "`playerctl metadata --format "{{ album }}"`" -t 1 fi

It looks like this for me. It's very visually similar to Spotify's own libnotify implementation.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

1maaa — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:00:40 GMT

1.1.68.632.g2b11de83 is still affected.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

nerosnm — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:21:55 GMT

I'm also experiencing this on Spotify version 1.1.68.628.geb44bd66 on NixOS.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

atemUsername — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 05:48:56 GMT

Same problem. Ubuntu 20.04, XFCE windows manager, spotify version 1.1.68.628.geb44bd66. All shortcuts work except ctrl+arrows. With each update client becomes unstabler, sad...

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

atemUsername — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 07:55:06 GMT

Seems like this issue have place in web player too

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

P6CG — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:57:30 GMT

Still not fixed and we are being ghosted...

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

lokulf — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:14:09 GMT

Issue not fixed.

Downgrading works. I had to downgrade to `sudo apt install spotify-client=1:1.1.10.546.ge08ef575-19`.
Use `apt-cache madison spotify-client` to see available version in your repo.

Other potential version see here: https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/spotify

Spotify should add official support for linux.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

Sebasty — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:32:00 GMT

It looks like the issue with arrow keys is not platform-specific, as I see Windows users also being unable to scroll with up/down arrows and change tracks. Those same issues are present in the web player as well.

For time being it seems it's best to downgrade or make use of playerctl or mpris keybinds.
It's possible to go back and forwards in history with the alt + arrow keys though.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

Jasvanc — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:23:56 GMT

I thought it was just me! I miss the CTRL shortcuts too.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

pasfreak — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:33:43 GMT

Also really missing the volume & song control shortcuts.

Using Flatpak on Ubuntu 21.04

Last working version: 1.1.55.498.gf9a83c60
Flatpak commit (2021-09-16): 6ccb153cf896461cfe38637cfb817a21138f342b2c59dcf1b3bb51c1d8c34241

For those also using flatpak you can downgrade like so:
flatpak update --commit=6ccb153cf896461cfe38637cfb817a21138f342b2c59dcf1b3bb51c1d8c34241 com.spotify.Client

I did notice improvements in the current stable version for some shortcuts, but the volume & song controls aren't working for me.

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

John1337 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:30:06 GMT

Missing it too, Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

Re: Forward and back keyboard shortcuts no longer working

afcuttin — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:07:58 GMT

the issue is still there, and it is super annoying to leave the keyboard only to change songs in spotify.

will try to install playerctl