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Chud37
Asked: 2018-05-09 03:10:45 +0800 CST

Command with notify-send and rhythmbox-client works, but when I assign a keyboard shortcut for it rhythmbox-client won't start

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I am trying to get the following shortcut to work:

notify-send -i rhythmbox "RhythmBox Is Playing" "$(rhythmbox-client --print-playing)"

It works fine If I run it from the command line, but when I set it as a keyboard shortcut I just get the text printed out and the program (rhythmbox-client) doesn't run.

What am I doing wrong?

shortcut-keys notify-send 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Try using the full paths

    find your paths: 

    $ which rhythmbox
/usr/bin/rhythmbox

$which rhythmbox-client
/usr/bin/rhythmbox-client

    Then sub the results in instead of just the commands

    notify-send -i /usr/bin/rhythmbox "RhythmBox Is Playing" "$(/usr/bin/rhythmbox-client --print-playing)"

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