mplayer must be running in the foreground in order to receive your
keyboard events.
I've found the best way to use mc for music control is to modify your
menu file (F9 -> Command -> Edit menu file) and add entries with slave
commands for xmms/deadbeef/whatever running elsewhere.
eg:
=+ t r & t t
Q Enqueue tagged files in MP3 Player
deadbeef --queue %t
set %u
It's also possible to get your window manager to intercept certain key
combos and send commands to your audio player. The technique varies from
one wm to another.
Hiya
I managed to make mplayer the default video player in mc. It is all
fine but the keyboard control does not work anymore (eg. pause, stop,
etc). I initially thought that I would have to put some prefix key
like Esc-Tab for the autocompletion in the mc command line but nope.
How to tell mc to not intercept keybindings send to running
applications like mplayer?
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