Do media hotkeys work out of the box on Ubuntu?

[orschiro]

Dear community,

I just have a quick question.

My laptop has special playback media keys to pause/play/forward/backward the playback.

These keys work out of the box with other applications but not with SMPlayer.

I just want to make sure whether this is just not generally supported or whether the problem is on my end.

Thank you!

Robert

[rvm]

You'll probably need to disable the multimedia keys in the ubuntu preferences, otherwise smplayer won't receive the multimedia key events.

[orschiro]

Thank you, rvm!

I did notice something very strange.

Please take a look at the following image. I disabled this key and enabled it again. And now suddenly, media hotkeys work even with SMPlayer!

I will test this further.

Do you have any idea how this could happen?

The reason why I don't want to disable these keys is that then all my other media players no longer work with media keys properly.

[rvm]

If you turn on the option "use the multimedia keys as global shortcuts" (*) in preferences -> keyboard, then maybe it wouldn't be necessary to turn off the multimedia keys in the ubuntu preferences.

(*) this option is only available if smplayer is compiled with Qt 5. You can find packages for Ubuntu built with Qt 5 here:
https://software.opensuse.org/download. ... e=smplayer

[orschiro]

Thanks!

I am trying to find a version for 17.10 but could only find packages up to xUbuntu 16.10.

Is this smplayer_17.6.0-3.1_amd64.deb compiled against Qt5?

[rvm]

These packages are for ubuntu 16.10 and use Qt 5:

[orschiro]