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Linux	Windows

Description

Lets you control Youtube, Pandora, Bandcamp, TidalHiFi and Google Play Music website media players using the media keys on your keyboard.

If you're not using Windows or compatible Linux environment, then this plugin requires that a browser window is active.

DBus support on Linux

This add-on listens for global media key presses on Linux via DBus and as such, requires the glib, gobject and gio shared libraries to be installed and available to Firefox. On Ubuntu, these can all be installed simultaneously by installing the libglib2.0-0 package, if not already installed.

This feature has been tested on Ubuntu 15.04 with Firefox 40.0a2.

Some desktop environments (Xfce, Openbox) uses DBus too, but they can't work with media keys properly. As a workaround, you can use mediakeys-daemon script to make needed DBus service:./mkd.py -d. Additionally you must use any keybinding app your DE have to run mediakeys-daemon script on media key press:

  -p, --play      send play event to all listeners
  -a, --pause     send pause event to all listeners
  -s, --stop      send stop event to all listeners
  -n, --next      send next-track event to all listeners
  -b, --previous  send previous-track event to all listeners

If you don't have media keys and want to use hotkeys, you can use it too.

Building and testing

This add-on utilises jpm, the Jetpack Manager for Node.js, for building, testing and packaging. Follow instructions at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/jpm for installation and use. Of particular note, see the Developing without browser restarts section as testing certain online media players require authentication.

On Linux you can use dbus-monitor --session to debug DBus work.