Global Hotkeys?

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Lovan

Global Hotkeys?

Postby Lovan » 16 Mar 2006 07:51

Hello

I tried a search but did not find anyting discussing global hotkeys.
Are there any way to enable global hotkeys? I haven't found the option anywhere.

/Lovan

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Postby dionoea » 16 Mar 2006 11:31

What do you call "Global hotkeys" ?
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Postby Guest » 16 Mar 2006 17:23

Prolly reffin' to
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so mediakeys like Pause, Play can be setupped.

Lovan

Postby Lovan » 16 Mar 2006 17:48

Yes exactly. Keybindings that works globally, ie I can change volym, skip to next etc, anywhere in windows.
Both winamp and foobar has them.

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Postby dionoea » 16 Mar 2006 18:23

VLC has them too. In preferences: General->Hotkeys
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Postby Lovan » 17 Mar 2006 04:55

But those hotkeys only works when vlc is selected.
Global hotkeys works even if I'm typing in word or gaming etc.
Hence the global :D

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Postby Tombigel » 22 Mar 2006 02:36

I join this feature request.

In winamp it's one of the most usefull features.

No need to stop whatever you do and put the players' window in focus to play/stop/change volume etc, just press a hotkey (in winamp they are all alt+ctrl+<key>) and continue your work.

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Postby tekumse » 07 Apr 2006 17:19

I'd love that as well. I have two monitors set up and regularly watch something on one and broswe the web on the other. In such case the browser is the active app and VLC is in the background. I'd love to be able to use the shortcuts without switching back to VLC.

Mahonni

Postby Mahonni » 22 Apr 2006 19:15

I join this feature request too. I'd give VLC many new possibilities...

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Postby rav0 » 23 Apr 2006 11:24

vote for global hotkeys

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Postby HDN » 24 Apr 2006 20:05

Yes, for me too.

It'll be a cool feature

Guest

Postby Guest » 26 Apr 2006 15:17

Global hotkeys? Sheesh, I'd be happy if the skip forward in time and skip back in time keys (besides the 10 second ones) still worked when the controller is the top window instead of only working when the video window is on top. Maybe I should post a new thread asking for this.

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Postby Guest » 26 Apr 2006 15:18

... in the Mac version anyway.

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Postby Doctor Trout » 08 May 2006 13:07

Another vote for global hotkeys, please.

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Postby AndyK » 09 May 2006 12:57

Yes, I'm in for the Global Hotkeys request.

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Global Hotkeys

Postby Thomas Homburg » 10 May 2006 12:18

Yes, global hotkeys is a must, it is the feature I have most use of in Winamp

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Postby Guest » 14 May 2006 00:37

+1

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Postby frying_fish » 28 May 2006 22:19

Global hotkeys would indeed be nice, they have my vote too,

However, I would also like to be able to configure my own shortcut keys, so I can for example use my tv cards remote to control vlc using its play / pause etc buttons if that was implemented too it would be great :-)

Janus0104

Postby Janus0104 » 29 May 2006 01:42

+1

Guest

Postby Guest » 07 Jun 2006 19:36

This would be awesome. It would completely make VLC player the only media player I ever need. Especially if you could map them to additional keyboard hotkeys which are configurable with the keyboard software (Winamp and WMP do this)

Guest

Postby Guest » 20 Jun 2006 01:55

Global Hotkeys should be standard in all media players. Its my only reason i miss winamp. I wish itunes would implement it. Until thend VLC yea Add em I use u to listen to music while i game

mobrien

Postby mobrien » 18 Jul 2006 21:20

Global Hotkeys. Please!!!

Also, those keys on my media keyboard (play/pause, next, back & stop). can they work with VLC also?

It would be grand!

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Postby hotkey1 » 23 Jul 2006 15:42

The problem how i see it is that it'd be completely different code to support this on all the different platforms (and i do not know if you can do this using gtk or wxwidgets or whatever vlc uses for their linux thing, unless x windows is all you need), but i would also appreciate it if this worked.

In the mini projects they talk about using dbus. This would do the global hotkey thing for gnome (and maybe kde xfce etc), as you can bind hotkeys to CLI commands, thus you should be able to pass DBUS messages to vlc by calling the right executable + switches from gnome using gnome's global hotkey support (but they call it something else).

And that's about all i can guess about. Still this'd be great!

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Postby Hiromitz » 01 Aug 2006 05:54

Sounds good expecually because i have a dell xps gen2 and id love that to work But

im sure it would take alot of work and it would probly have to be a plugin...

o.o and would have to be made for every os...

Sbabu

Postby Sbabu » 01 Aug 2006 15:02

Yes I too think global hotkeys will be an useful addition to the VLC player.


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