Global Hotkeys & Minimize to Tray for Linux?

If you just want to minimise to the system tray under Gnome or KDE you can use a third-party application like kdocker. It's nowhere near a complete solution (like amarok's system tray icon) but at least you can utilise the tray until (if) this issue gets sorted.

Well, version 1.0 is out... Still no global hotkeys ? Or I can't find them ?

I'm hoping for global hotkeys under OSX. In general though, you've done an awesome job :-)

I'm very used to these two from Amarok and I can't switch until I can use them. Which sucks because Amarok is getting really slow with big libraries.

The hotkeys I use all the time are play/pause/stop, next/previous, ratings and show/hide window. The funny thing is that I don't even use Amarok's hotkey system (there were some bugs there), but Compiz's: since Amarok allows querying and setting state via dcop, I have scriptlets triggered by Compiz shortcuts to do what I need. The problem is that Songbird doesn't allow that.

(In fact I don't really need the minimize to tray trick; I just need a shortcut that makes the player window go away & return when needed. The tray icon would just be gravy.)

It would be really cool if Songbird allowed some control from scripts: dcop, dbus, even some sort of Python bindings would be enough if Songbird exposed enough of its internals. Writing a XPI extension is just too hard for some things.

I think I can actually do the hiding part with just JavaScript, except that sbIGlobalHotkeys is not implemented in 1.0, apparently. And mucking around with custom XPCOM is a bit too much for me; it already took a while to figure out how to control the existing ones via JS.

In fact, if sbIGlobalHotkeys* were added, I could do pretty much everything I need (including ratings, maybe) with just JavaScript. (Although figuring out what to call is a bitch.)

(*: or, even better, something like dcop to control Songbird via scripts. There are plenty of ways of using global hotkeys, it's controlling uncooperative applications like Songbird that is the hard part.)

It would be fantastic if this happened, but given the length of time since this was originally asked I absolutely don't expect anything.

This is the function that I've been looking for. If songbird has this. then I will switch from Amarok 100%..

I also long for global hotkeys for Songbird in osx. I use quicksilver to create make a hotkey for iTunes to pause and play the song, and I always accidentally hit it while I'm in Songbird but to no avail.

I've given up on Songbird; it's clear the developers don't care to implement requested features, and its poor performance was getting to me. Here's wishing them luck with their product.

I'd love to see global hotkeys for Linux as well.

So there are no global hotkeys for songbird at all?
Today I've heard about songbird for the first time and I would like to move on it (because amarok doesn't fit good enough in my GNOME desktop), but if it doesn't support global hotkeys and wikilyrics, then I won't use it...

Then how we can use to Songbird 1.1.2 on linux?

Either that, or fixing Songbird's command line interface which is apparently broken. Running "songbird -pause" would supposedly pause Songbird. That way, you could set up your environment to run that command when you press a hotkey.

Yes, please fix the command line hotkey bug! Then I guess packagers will sort the hotkeys out themselves, when it comes to Linux distribution. http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show...

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/search...

That should be what you're looking for with regard to global hotkeys... if you have your hotkeys properly set up in your environment it will work (uses XF86AudioPlay, etc.).

It didn't work :(

ASUS F80S + Ubuntu 9.04 + GNOME 2.26.1 + Songbird 1.2.0 + http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/... (MultimediaKeysFlip)

Multimedia keys work, but prev/next skips a song, e.g. next skips to the song after the next.

Still no minimize to tray support, though.