ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

Johannes Manhave drantin at gmail.com
Tue May 12 02:29:21 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:28:19PM -0400, Orville Bennett wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Ok, well at least I can do a few things, e.g.:
>
>    amarok --play|--stop|--next|--pause
>

You could also hack up something that uses qdbus directly, you can
browse around with qdbusviewer (both come with Qt, so you should have
them)


> And then control volume separately.  Nowhere as nice as my interface
> last year with DCOP, but will do.
>
>
> My remote is getting pretty old.  Maybe next year there will be an
> iPhone app I can make work with Amarok.  I have one for my Slim
> Squeezecenter and it's pretty handy.
>
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> Bill Moseley.
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