playerctld maintains a list of players, but lacks an option to show that list

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🎧 mpris media player command-line controller for vlc, mpv, RhythmBox, web browsers, cmus, mpd, spotify and others.

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playerctld maintains a list of players, but lacks an option to show that list #265

Closed thomasvs closed 2 years ago

thomasvs commented 2 years ago

I'm trying to figure out why playerctld is wrongly keeping my paused rhythmbox at the top of the stack over my playing spotify.

I see shift and unshift commands to move to a different player, but a list command to list all currently known players, and their order, seems like an easy addition?

acrisci commented 2 years ago

You can run playercltd with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=playerctl playerctld and it will display debug messages that explains why it chooses the player it does.

thomasvs commented 2 years ago

Thanks for that!

Now, when running it, and pressing play in rhythmbox, I see

(playerctld:1181414): playerctl-ERROR **: 17:17:25.803: cannot update properties for unknown interface: org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Playlists Trace/breakpoint trap

That seems like a clearer reason for why it might not be working for me. I'll open a separate issue.