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eworm-de / mpd-notification

Notify about tracks played by mpd
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Can this work on a tty with gnome open (or not) on another tty? #32

Closed i30817 closed 3 years ago

i30817 commented 5 years ago

A bit of context: I'm interested in controlling mpd with media keys on a tty, and tried out mpris2 https://github.com/eonpatapon/mpDris2

There i was informed that what i wanted isn't possible for them, since they depend on the gnome-settings-daemon daemon being running to get the keys.

I was also further reminded that there is a rule somewhere about 'only one notification daemon can be registered on dbus at a time', which definitely sinks any further attempts when both gnome and ncmpcpp are running on different ttys but the same user i believe. I'm uncertain if systemd units can coordinate a eventual 'TTY media keys daemon' so it's not running at the same time as gnome, or if there is a much better way listening to edev directly.

This issue is just a query 'is this going to stay impossible on the foreseeable future'?

Eh. A modern shell tty running alacritty and 3d acceleration and a notification daemon would be quite interesting. I hope to see something like that eventually.

eworm-de commented 3 years ago

No idea, I guess this is out of scope. This program just links against libnotify and uses it to send notifications. You can do what ever libnotify supports.