Questions[cmus](ubuntu)

I'm trying to set my keyboard's media keys to control my command line player cmus via cmus-remote (pause, prev, next). This works fine with any other keys but the media keys will not register when I'm prompted to push the desired key for a custom shortcut. The media keys do however register just fine when I set them for one of the ubuntu default shortcuts like "play".

Is there a way to get around this limitation? I've tried to edit my dconf and set ctrl + numpad 5 to cmus-remote --pause which works great:

[org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom1] binding='KP_5' command='cmus-remote --pause' name='cmus pause'

Maybe it's enough to simply replace 'binding' with the media pause key? But how can I find out the name that gnome uses for that key?

xev seems to capture the media next key as 'XF86AudioNext' but setting that doesn't seem to work either.

I want to list all my playlists in cmus, but the playlist view only shows the contents of the current one.

Here is an issue on github for this feature: https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/431

According to this issue it had a working implementation, but I can't figure out how to toggle it.

I’m running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and i3-gaps on an old MacBook Pro. I’ve been trying to get Cmus working for a little while, I have moved one of my mp3 files to my downloads to try and get it playing. It shows up in terminal and in files, but on cmus it doesn’t show up at all in Browser or if I :add to the file. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I'm wondering how to bind the media keys of my laptop to cmus play/pause next/previous. I've tried to use the bind common audioplay player-pause and variance commands to simply try to do what I want.

I can't seem to figure out the correct 'key names' for the media keys, and I'm not sure if cmus will be able to understand them when running in the background. I've found fixes for OS X such as this but I see no ways to make this work on Ubuntu. Is it possible, if so, how?

I've been using 14.04 LTS for the last few weeks and have just updated to 15.10 CMUS had been working fine on 14.04, but ever since I upgraded, it just doesn't work.

I've installed and removed cmus several times, but I can't get it to start.