ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

Jan Holthuis jan at holmek.de
Tue May 12 06:35:13 UTC 2009


I'm remote-controlling my amarok with my bluetooth-phone. If you own one, you 
could do this yourself.

If you have a SonyEricsson-phone (like me):
http://stefans.datenbruch.de/k750i/remote.shtml
If you own a phone by another brand:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lbrc/

Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 04:29:21 schrieb Johannes Manhave:
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Bill Moseley.
> > moseley at hank.org
> > Sent from my iMutt
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