ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

[Orville Bennett]

On May 11, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Bill Moseley wrote:

> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 01:05:57AM +0100, Leonardo Franchi wrote:
>> Yes. Amarok 2.x no longer uses DCOP. Along with the rest of KDE,  
>> Amarok has
>> switched to the DBus interprocess communicaton protocol. Amarok  
>> implements the
>> MPRIS spec for media players, it can be seen  here:
>>
>> http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/MPRIS
>
> Big party this weekend and my wife will be very unhappy if I can't
> hack up the remote to work. ;)
>
> Can anyone point me to an example client?  I looked over the MRIPS
> wiki and then reviewed some of the clients, and specifically the Perl
> clients:
>
>    http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Writing_XMMS2_Clients
>    http://git.xmms.se/?p=xmms2-tutorial.git;a=tree;f=perl;h=e9ddb47d9de9f7fb324b2e68d9bf1b14dcf14a7e;hb=c0162aad19da6bce3bfdb3b816bab8a7343a06b0
>
> But, I don't really understand if all the xmms2 info applies to
> Amarok.  I couldn't get the example clients above to work --  I
> was mostly stumbling around in the dark.
>
> Looks like there's a Perl client module available:
>
>    http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Audio-XMMSClient-0.03/
>
> and I'm hoping it's just a matter of configuring it correctly.
> Assuming that it's the correct protocol for Amarok.
>
> Again, I already have a remote control and  I have a Perl
> script that reads the key presses.  So, all I need is the interface
> to control Amarok.
Which would probably be kdelirc, which is unavailable in KDE until 4.3.
There are probably ways to do what you want by settings amarok  
shortcuts to correspond to your remote keys.
Nope, don't know how.
>
> Thanks,
Sorry.
>
>
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