amarok no windows+c shortcut to pause anymore

What may have happened was that the shortcut for pause was removed and replaced with Win+X for play_pause. That means Win+X will both pause and restart playing (unpause) the track. Since play_pause and pause are different shortcuts, it looks like the shortcut label was removed in the R-Click menu on the Amarok icon.

Can you try Win+X and see if it does the above mentioned action?

Didn't think about that but just tryed and no it's not pausing, it starts the song from the beginning.

(I'm really bugging you tonight ^^ sorry)

Ah, don't worry about it. What is the shortcut set to in Amarok's Settings->Configure Global Shortcuts ?

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

Hello,

the answer to Andrew Ash's question (What is the shortcut set to in Amarok's Settings->Configure Global Shortcuts ?) is: the shortcut is not set at all, while the other shortcuts (Win+Z, Win+X etc) are correctly set.

I reopened the bug, as I can give the information asked.

Thanks a lot, it's just a small bug, and the user can correct it himself, but it's slightly annoying...

Hi,

I'm sorry for the lack of answer, (forgot to reply), I can confirm what Giorgos Akrivas said, the shortcut is not set at all and it is the only one in the list with no shortcut.

There is though a play/pause button with a shortcut XF86AudioPause, but it's not the same action....

And if I remember correctly, before when right clicking on the amarok icon in the deskbar you had all the option you have now but not the play/pause button, there were two options, play and pause. Seems like they removed play pause to become only one and the shortcut was changed to XF86AudioPause. My keyboard is a normal one, I don't have any key for audio programs. I could easily change the shortcut but it would maybe be better to put back Win+X and add XF86AudioPause as the second shortcut ?

I had the same problem and eventually tracked it down to the Enhanced zoom desktop feature of compiz.

I just went into compiz config settings manager and disabled the Enhanced zoom desktop feature which uses the win+c keyboard shortcut to centre the mouse on the screen and then re-enabled the win+c under amaroks global shortcut settings and it worked again.

Hope this helps.

I had the same problem and reached the same conclusion as spadger. Now that I have disabled the shortcut in Enhanced Zoom Desktop, Win+C currently works only when Amarok has focus. However, I assume it will become global again after a reboot. I'll report back later if this is not the case. Looks like a simple shortcut conflict.

Giorgos Akrivas and Romain Despland reported that their Super+C / Win+C global shortcuts were not correctly set; as in spadger's case, I found that the shortcut was in fact correctly set. Is it possible there are two separate issues reflected in the comments here?

I set the status to Confirmed, as there is no one working on a solution.

In the new version of kubuntu (hardy), the Win+C shortcut is still not set at all.

the most annoying part of this bug is that you can't set the pause to anything using the windows key. I tried the win+n and a few other combinations and nothing worked. However, now I have it set to cntrl+c,d meaning i hold cntrl and hit c and d. This seems to work, but it really would be nice to have a win+c again. I'm not sure how this was overlooked -- if on purpose, can someone let us know why?

In Hardy here, the Win+C shortcut does not work either. I checked "configure global shortcuts" and it is set for Win+C the way it should be, but it still does not work. "Enhanced Zoom" in compiz is not enabled either.

1. sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager
2. System->CompizConfig Settings Manager
3. Enhanced Zoom Desktop
4. Remove the shortcut for "Center the mouse" (mouse behaviour tab)
5. Restart Amarok

Maybe disable that shortcut (or find another one) by default?

I'm using Intrepid.

...or maybe compiz could not use shortcuts which are already used by Amarok since the very day it supports shortcuts (which is defenitely longer than compiz even exists).

Does everyone who reported to be affected by this issue run compiz?

i do not run compiz, nor had i ever heard of it before researching this problem in amarok. unless 6.06 came with compiz installed, the problem for me is not that. my keyboard was having some problems though and it could have been that, but it's not very likely. thanks.

We could probably add this by default in kubuntu-default-settings. For now (as of Kubuntu 9.04 at least) it is possible to add global shortcuts for actions via the Configure Shortcuts dialog.

Works in karmic, I believe this is now default in amarok itself.