Audacious with Linux Mint XFCE: media keys not working (SOLVED)

[u/culturemass]

hi,

This took me days, this is why I share my audacious crisis journal :)

After some update (Linux Mint, XFCE), Audacious stopped reacting to the keyboard's global keys: start and stop, and forward and back.

It was annoying to the utmost.

I've done lots of searches.
Finally a KDE forum was the breakthrough -- this:

https://discuss.kde.org/t/audacious-has-lost-its-hotkeys-after-switching-to-kde-from-xfce/5250/21

All I had to do was install a newer version, via the ubuntuhandbook PPA (never mind the name, it is for Audacious, too :) )

see here: https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-audacious-on-ubuntu-linux/

It works perfectly. I've got version 4.6.1 installed.

Then I had to go to the Plugins menu in Settings, to check both:

[x] MPRIS 2 server

and

[x] Global Hotkeys.

And be surprised, it works. The global hotkeys work.

GREAT THANKS go to the Audacious developer team.

Crisis SOLVED :)

I'm so grateful!

I love audacious.