Merknad: Dette innlegget er fleire år gammalt. Informasjonen kan vere utdatert.
Unity-panelet har ein funksjon som heiter quicklist. Dette er eigenlaga høgreklikkmenyar til ymse program. Thunderbird kjem til dømes med «Skriv ny melding» og «Kontaktar». Eg har lengje sakna å kunne styra Spotify slik. Her er ein framgangsmåte for å få til nettopp dette, funnen på askubuntu.com:
Fyrst, installer libnet-dbus-perl:
sudo apt-get install libnet-dbus-perl |
Opprett så fila spcmd med innhaldet:
#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; use File::Basename; use Net::DBus; # Figure out some dbus stuff unless ( defined $ENV{'DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'} ) { &set_DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; #die "Don't know which dbus to attach to.\nMake sure environment variable DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is set."; } #my $bus = Net::DBus->find; my $bus = Net::DBus->session; my $spotify = $bus->get_service("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify"); my $player = $spotify->get_object("/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2", "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player"); my $application = $spotify->get_object("/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2", "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2"); my $getorset = $spotify->get_object("/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2", "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"); # Handle command line argument if (scalar @ARGV == 0) { &print_help; } given ($ARGV[0]) { # when ('play') { $player->Play(); } #Does not work for some reason. when ('pause') { $player->Pause(); } when ('playpause') { $player->PlayPause(); } when ('next') { $player->Next(); } when ('previous') { $player->Previous(); } when ('stop') { $player->Stop(); } when ('playstatus') { print $getorset->Get("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player", "PlaybackStatus") . "\n"; } when (m/\bspotify:(artist|album|track):[0-9a-zA-z]{22}\b/) { $player->OpenUri($_); } when ('metadata-debug') { &print_debug_metadata; } default { &print_help; } } # Print the help text sub print_help { print "USAGE: " . basename($0) . " {pause|playpause|next|previous|stop|playstatus|met adata-debug|<spotify URI>}\n\n"; print "\t" . "pause" . "\t\t" . "Causes spotify to pause current playback." . "\n"; print "\t" . "playpause" . "\t" . "Causes spotify to pause or play current playback." . "\n"; print "\t" . "next" . "\t\t" . "Goes to next song." . "\n"; print "\t" . "previous" . "\t" . "Goes to previous song." . "\n"; print "\t" . "stop" . "\t\t" . "Stops playback." . "\n"; print "\t" . "playstatus" . "\t" . "Prints current playstatus (Playing/Paused)." . "\n"; print "\t" . "<spotify URI>" . "\t" . "Starts playing supplied URI." . "\n"; print "\t" . "metadata-debug" . "\t" . "Shows available data on currently playing song." . "\n"; print "\t" . "\t\t" . "Fairly unformatted, thus \"debug\" data." . "\n"; print "\n"; print "EXAMPLES:\t" . basename($0) . " playpause" . "\n"; print "\t\t" . basename($0) . " spotify:track:5XXAq1r5r73ZyBS0XAiGw0" . "\n"; exit; } # Print some raw metadata sub print_debug_metadata { # Dereference the metadata hashref by copying it to a local hash my %metadata = %{ $getorset->Get("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player", "Metadata") }; # Print all metadata print "Now Playing:\n"; for (keys %metadata) { print $_ . ":\t" . $metadata{$_} . "\n" unless ($_ eq 'xesam:artist'); } # Dereference the artist arrayref by copying it to local array my @artistarray = @{ $metadata{'xesam:artist'} }; # Print all artists. foreach my $artist (@artistarray) { print "artist: \t" . $artist . "\n"; } } sub set_DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS { my $curruser = `whoami`; chomp $curruser; my $procname = 'spotify'; my $pid = `pgrep -o -u $curruser $procname`; chomp $pid; my $environ = '/proc/' . $pid . '/environ'; my $dbussession = `grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS $environ`; $dbussession =~ s/^DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=//; $ENV{'DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'} = $dbussession; } |
Set køyretillatingar og flytt til /usr/local/bin:
chmod +x ~/spcmd mv ~/spcmd /usr/local/bin |
Kopier programstartaren til lokal mappe, og opna fila:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications cp /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop ~/.local/share/applications gedit ~/.local/share/applications/spotify.desktop |
Legg til følgjande innhald til sist i spotify.desktop-fila:
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=PlayPause;Next;Previous;Stop; [PlayPause Shortcut Group] Name=PlayPause Exec=spcmd playpause TargetEnvironment=Unity [Next Shortcut Group] Name=Next Exec=spcmd next TargetEnvironment=Unity [Previous Shortcut Group] Name=Previous Exec=spcmd previous TargetEnvironment=Unity [Stop Shortcut Group] Name=Stop Exec=spcmd stop TargetEnvironment=Unity |
Det kjekke med spcmd-skriptet, er at du no kan styra Spotify frå terminalen og liknande. Med dette kan du leggja til tastatursnarvegar. Hurra!