Multi-App Media Control

[andre-exads]

Please describe in detail what you would like to solve with the proposed feature:

When you have multiple apps playing at the same time, say:

• youtube playing white noises (rain on the window);
• youtube-music playing songs; Then you want to pause/play both apps at the same time with keyboard media keys, and most likely if you press the skip forward/backward you want only one app (the one playing songs) to get that command.

Do you have an idea how it could be solved and how it should look like?

Add advanced media key binding or something similar that consider multiple apps.

Describe alternatives you've considered:

Using the mouse to access the "notifications panel" had been the only way to achieve a similar control.

Additional context:

[jiri-janousek]

Hello @andre-exads, thanks for your suggestion, but your idea seems too complex and I'm not going to implement it. You can, however, use Nuvola's command line interface to achieve your goal.

For example, you can create a script toggle-play-all.sh and assign a keyboard shortcut in GNOME Settings → Keyboard shortcuts.

#!/bin/bash
for app in $(flatpak run eu.tiliado.Nuvola api-master /nuvola/core/list_apps | jq -r '.[].id')
do flatpak run eu.tiliado.Nuvola -a $app action toggle-play
done

[andre-exads]

Hello @andre-exads, thanks for your suggestion, but your idea seems too complex and I'm not going to implement it. You can, however, use Nuvola's command line interface to achieve your goal.

For example, you can create a script toggle-play-all.sh and assign a keyboard shortcut in GNOME Settings → Keyboard shortcuts.

#!/bin/bash
for app in $(flatpak run eu.tiliado.Nuvola api-master /nuvola/core/list_apps | jq -r '.[].id')
do flatpak run eu.tiliado.Nuvola -a $app action toggle-play
done

Thanks a lot for the reply. That script will do the trick :+1: