Launch music player shortcut is hardcoded in the sources

Thankf for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu and Control Center do you use?

Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy)
gnome-control-center 2.12.1-0ubuntu2

A temporary quickfix can be acheived until the souce code problem is resolved by editing the metacity registry keys using the gconf editor.

For example:
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_2 set to F2
/apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_2 set to banshee, for example.

Be sure F2 is not used in the key properties capplet, aka "Keyboard Shortcuts" or it will be overriden there.

After this is done, F2 will launch whatever command is set in the /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_2 key.

Cheers!
T.J.

Hi,

I've been quite irritated by this bug, but found an easy work around until the player to launch gets configurable: create a symlink called "rhythmbox" to your favourite player in a directory situated before /usr/bin in your path.
For example:
ln -s /usr/bin/xmms /usr/local/bin/rhythmbox
did the trick for me as I have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in my path.

You can then use the "media" key to launch whatever you symlinked to.

Hope this helps,

JB

upstream bug about a preferred player option: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300514

or http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171871 upstream

Jean-Baptiste's thing works for me. That is like soooo cool. I really liked Rhythmbox before I saw Banshee. I did this:

ln -s /usr/bin/banshee /usr/local/bin/rhythmbox

And that works just fine!

This upload fixes the bug:

 gnome-control-center (1:2.19.1-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
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   * New upstream version:
     about-me:
     - Build fixes
     - Add image filter to file chooser
     - Plug memory leaks
     at-properties:
     - Don't require GNOME Glade library
     background:
     - Don't require GNOME Glade library
     - Don't crash if the GConf schema is missing
     - Fix initialization of the secondary colour picker
     - Replace deprecated GtkOptionMenu with GtkComboBox
     - Fix scaling for WPTYPE_ZOOM
     default applications:
     - Added widgets for default media player
     - Don't require GNOME Glade library
     - Added Seamonkey as web browser and mail reader
     - Added widgets for default accessibility applications
     display:
     - Uppercase the rotation options
     - Added 720x576 (PAL) to the list of valid resolutions
     fonts:
     - Don't require GNOME Glade library
     keybindings:
     - Fix the patch from which we'd load the keybindings
     - Prepend the directory name before loading the files
     - Remove metacity keybindings definitions
     keyboard:
     - Use a radio button instead of a chackbox to indicate the default layout
     - Use automatic instead of always scrollbar policy
     - New version of the layout chooser, comboboxentry-based (Ubuntu: #70155)
     mouse:
     - Use automatic instead of always scrollbar policy
     theme switcher:
     - Add filters for theme packages to the file chooser and mark the file
       chooser title for translation
     - Use OnlyShowIn=; to hide the theme installer from menus and menu editors
     windows:
     - Use GtkComboBox instead of GtkOptionMenu
     shell:
     - Build libslab statically, to avoid conflicts with gnome-main-menu
     settings daemon:
     - Added handler for media keybinding (Ubuntu: #4265)
     - Don't crash if DBus connection is not available
     - Don't set Emacs.mode-line.attributeBackground to avoid problems with
       emacs 22
     - Rebuild the media window if the state of composite has changed
       (Ubuntu: #83724)
     - Fix launch-app-in-terminal support
     - Started refactoring of modules
     - Also check registered directories for notification
     - Removed all settings not related to colour
     - Try to figure out the DPI value from the X server or the user's GConf
       settings
     general:
     - Rename module name to gnome-control-center
   * debian/control.in:
     - tarball is name gnome-control-center now
   * debian/capplets-data.gconf-defaults:
     - use gconf-defaults rather than the 07_default_keys.patch schemas change
   * debian/capplets-data.install:
     - updated to upstream changes
   * debian/gnome-control-center.install:
     - list the bin directory rather than every entry
     - updated to the new directory naming
   * debian/gnome-control-center.links:
     - updated for upstream naming change
   * Sync with Debian
   * debian/control.in:
     - don't use type-handling.
     - libgnome-settings-daemon-dev Conflicts,Replaces,Provides
       gnome-control-center-dev, Debian named that package diffe...