topic Re: Linux keyboard shortcuts in Desktop (Linux)

Linux keyboard shortcuts

wolf14 — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 02:52:46 GMT

The Linux client doesn't appear to support the same set of keyboard shortcuts as the others. In particular, I'm missing the "go forward/back" shortcut to scrub ahead or behind in a track. (Would love to use a global shortcut to do this outside the app too!) Is there a reason why the Linux version doesn't have keyboard shortcut parity?

Re: Linux keyboard shortcuts

jooon — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:21:22 GMT

Did you mean to link to https://support.spotify.com/using_spotify/search_play/keyboard-shortcuts/ ?

Inconsolata is a great font though!

The reason why the Linux version does not have keyboard shortcut parity is that keyboard integration is in the system integration layer which is different in win/mac/linux. There are a few things that only make sense on some platforms, but this sounds like just an oversight.

I can see if I can make the shortcuts sync between the clients and add some guidelines for how to change those source files so that we don't go out of sync again.

Global shortcuts are much trickier and would also be system specific. On a linux desktop environment I would implement this with MPRIS calls, by checking Position property, add/subtract a few seconds and then calling SetPosition. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/Player_Interface.html#Method:SetPosition

Unfortunately... the Linux client doesn't implement the full MPRIS standard (yet).

Re: Linux keyboard shortcuts

schuellerf — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 12:20:24 GMT

Hi!

Seeking doesn't seem to be supported but I found the dbus interface in the internet and the attached script works fine for me.

This script can easily be attached to global keyboard shortcuts (e.g. for xfce...)

Just place it somewhere and make it executable

chmod a+x spotify_control

Regards

schuellerf

Re: Linux keyboard shortcuts

rszabla — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:53:57 GMT

on ubuntu...
system settings --> keyborad --> shortcuts --> next track/ previous track

cheers!