SMPlayer Support Forum

Hi,
I've been trying to use the global shortcuts but I haven't been able to find out how . Under Preferences-Keyboard/mouse I just have the normal shortcuts and they don't work when Smplayer is not as the active window. I'm using Smplayer 17.2.0 under Mint 17.3 (Ubuntu 14.04)

The global shortcuts only work when SMPlayer is compiled with Qt 5.
You can find packages compiled with Qt 5 for Ubuntu here:
http://software.opensuse.org/download.h ... e=smplayer

Hi rvm. Thanks for the answer. I've installed the one with qt5 but haven't been able to use them yet

You need to enable the option "use the multimedia keys as global shortcuts" in preferences -> keyboard and mouse.

I did. I guess it is because this keyboard has the multimedia keys with the Fn key. Is there any way to set other keys apart from the multimedia ones to the global shortcuts?
EDIT: I've tried the keyboard with vlc and the multimedia keys work. Also tried with another keyboard with multimedia keys and they work in vlc but not in Smplayer. Anything else I could change?

I don't know, maybe there was something wrong with the installation?. I downloaded the deb package from the page you mentioned.

I don't think it's an installation problem.
Maybe your computer is returning different key codes than the ones that smplayer expects.

I can give you the test application I used to implement this feature, it displays the key codes of the keys as you press them. But you would have to compile it.