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romanbird
Asked: 2013-03-31 02:19:22 +0800 CST

custom keyboard shortcuts

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I don't understand why my custom hotkeys aren’t working. The commands work fine on the terminal and my choice of hotkeys do work for other commands ( I tried gedit).

This is what I did, only the first one works:

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the full command is 

echo -n  "pause" | nc -U /home/me/.local/share/vlc/vlc.sock

IT WORKS ON THE TERMINAL

shortcut-keys

1 Answers

  1. Instead of assigning those long commands, I wrote a script that takes options and do the things I want. I then assigned keyboard shortcuts for the script with different options. works like a charm.

    btw, I am doing this because the vlc global hotkeys don't work at all -- how did this get past testing??? As a workaround, I configured vlc to take remote commands from a socket of my choice.

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