Command line interface need X server

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From calvinh34 on July 08, 2010 15:41:07

Hi there ! First of all, thank you for Clementine, witch is the exact music player I need :) Great job !

But I think Clementine have a wrong behaviour with the command line. What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Start playing on computer A
2. SSH computer A from computer B
3. Try to control clementine with some command line What is the expected output? What do you see instead? clementine is already playing on brasserie

[goudale@Chaipa ~]$ clementine --help
Usage: clementine [options] [URL(s)]

Options du lecteur:
-p, --play Commencer la liste de lecture jouée actuellement
-t, --play-pause Play if stopped, pause if playing
-u, --pause Mettre la lecture en pause
-s, --stop Arrêter la lecture
-r, --previous Lire la piste précédente
-f, --next Lire la piste suivante
-v, --volume Définir le volume à pourcents
--volume-up Augmenter le volume de 4%
--volume-down Baisser le volume de 4%
--seek-to Seek the currently playing track to an absolute position
--seek-by Seek the currently playing track by a relative amount

Options de la liste de lecture:
-a, --append Ajouter des fichiers/URLs à la liste de lecture
-l, --load Charger des fichiers/URLs, et remplacer la liste de lecture actuelle
-k, --play-track Jouer la ème piste de la liste de lecture

Autres options:
-o, --show-osd Display the on-screen-display
-e, --engine Select engine
[goudale@Chaipa ~]$ ssh goudale@192.168.1.180
goudale@192.168.1.180's password:
Last login: Thu Jul 8 14:30:54 2010
[goudale@brasserie ~]$ clementine -t
clementine: cannot connect to X server
[goudale@brasserie ~]$

Is there a way to bypass it ?
This is my very first report, please tell me if you need more information.

And I'm currently writing an interface to control clementine via anyRemote. (anyRemote is a Bluetooth remote control for cellphones). If someone is interested, I will post it here. :)

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=489

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From calvinh34 on July 08, 2010 08:43:30

Hi again ! I avoided that "bug" using DBUS :

[goudale@Chaipa ~]$ ssh goudale@192.168.1.180
goudale@192.168.1.180's password:
Last login: Thu Jul 8 17:15:43 2010 from chaipa
[goudale@brasserie ~]$ export grep DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= $(ls -t ~/.dbus/session-bus/* | head -1)
[goudale@brasserie ~]$ qdbus 'org.mpris.clementine' /Player Play
[goudale@brasserie ~]$ qdbus 'org.mpris.clementine' /Player Next

I think I will use mpris instead of command line for my remote interface. Do you think it's a better idea ?

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From yellow_onion@orcon.net.nz on July 08, 2010 22:41:58

this isn't exactly a bug, if you want it to work you need to specify the DISPLAY variable so it knows what X to connect to

$ DISPLAY=:0 clementine -t

for example

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From andrew.gaydenko on July 08, 2010 23:15:12

I have voted for the issue by slightly another reason. I use CLI for LIRCing. Repeatable commands (say, volume regulation) produce frequent sequnce of 'clementine' call (with appropriate options). So we have sequence of multiple loading of 8MB executable.

From my point, it would be handy to separate CLI in another executable (say, 'clementine-client', which would be 100 times smaller) with code needed to communicate only with running 'clementine' instance.

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From davidsansome on July 10, 2010 09:20:11

This issue was closed by revision r1432 .

Status: Fixed

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From davidsansome on July 10, 2010 09:22:29

I like the sound of the anyRemote interface - please do post it here :)

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From calvinh34 on July 10, 2010 10:24:46

I already writed a very basic config file that's work. Unfortunately (or not :p ) I'm in holidays for the moment, and I don't have an access on this file. I will post it next week ;)

DBus is really fine for it, but thanks all for your answers anyway :)

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From jl.bahamonde.a on July 19, 2011 09:39:15

Hi there calvinh34.
I have just seen your post and I would like to know if the config file that you wrote makes a remote control for clementine out of a bluetooth-capable cell phone...
If so, would you be willing to share it? I'd appreciate it a lot!
I'm using clementine on Mac OSX and I'm searching for a way to control it from a distance...

Many thanks in advance, you can write to hendrixman at hotmail.com if you please.

Thanks again.

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From calvinh34 on July 19, 2011 09:49:59

As far as i remember, i wrote the config files for anyremote ;) it just need
a jsr82 (Bluetooth over java) capable phone.
But i don't know if the server parts run on osx

Le 19 juil. 2011 18:39, clementine-player@googlecode.com a écrit :

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From tjofle on August 27, 2012 11:32:51

An alternative to anyRemote for smartphone users is Clementine Web Remote: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-webremote/