System keyboard shortcuts

[spajdo]

Please add support for Sound and Media keyboard shortcuts. For previous/next track and play/pause buttons. It realy miss me.

[EragonJ]

@spajdo it's supported natively by Kaku itself already, please check

Kaku/bootup.js

Line 70 in d9dfab6

const shortcuts = [

[EragonJ]

If you found that this doesn't work in your platform / OS, please follow the default format to report your issue here and we'll see how to solve that. Instead, if the comment above does help you, i'll lose this one, thanks :)

[spajdo]

Bug

I don't have media buttons on my keyboard and therefore I mapped my own shortcuts to controll media players in my system. All players works with this, but Kaku don't work.

What is your Kaku version ?

1.5.0

What is your OS with version number ?

Ubuntu Gnome 16.04

Which platform you are using to listen to music ?

YouTube

Which track format you are using ?

best video (or best audio)

Please look at this. This is very useful and nice application and only this miss me. Thank you.

[EragonJ]

@spajdo oh that's interesting scenario ... can you try to use 1.7.0 and see how it works for you ?

[spajdo]

In 1.7.0 version is the same.
I send you my shortcuts settings.
In Nuvolaplayer (which I use for google play music) it works fine. I think nuvola is too opensource. Maybe try look at his codes.

[EragonJ]

cool thanks @spajdo I checked electron's source code and it seems that they directly read the keyChar you pressed from your keyboard. So take play for example, i think it'll recognize there is one shift+ctrl+space got pressed instead of MediaPlayPause.

Let's keep this open first :)

[EragonJ]

I'll close this outdated issue first and feel free to reopen if there is any way to bypass this in electron.

[acrisci]

The way to make media keys work on Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions is to implement the MPRIS DBus Specification.

There's a library for that called mpris-service.

You can see a list of implementations here.

[EragonJ]

@acrisci thanks i'll give it a look