Cinnamon: media keys sometimes stop working

Created on 10 Jun 2019 · 3Comments · Source: linuxmint/cinnamon

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Cinnamon version 4.0.10-2
RebornOS (Arch)
Nvidia Quadro P4000 Mobile, nvidia-dkms 430.14-8
64 bit
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The media keys (play, pause, next/previous track) sometimes stop working. After rebooting everything works fine again.

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damian101

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This happens to me as well. It seems that closing the application that responds to the media keys causes this. This is probably related to this issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/issues/45

I get these errors in my ~/.xsession-errors when they stop working:

(csd-media-keys:2932): media-keys-plugin-WARNING **: 08:59:20.240: Error calling method GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.xplayer was not provided by any .service files

Running killall csd-media-keys fixes it for me.

DemonTPx on 11 Nov 2019

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I get these errors in my ~/.xsession-errors when they stop working:

(csd-media-keys:2932): media-keys-plugin-WARNING **: 08:59:20.240: Error calling method GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.xplayer was not provided by any .service files

Running killall csd-media-keys fixes it for me.

DemonTPx on 11 Nov 2019

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Cinnamon 4.4.8 is also affected, and the suggested workaround works.

mondalaci on 21 Apr 2020

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Could be related: the output of csd-media-keys --verbose shows that is creating a proxy for opened apps. For example

I open chromium and start playing music on spotify.
I hate that song, so I press 'next' media key.
$ csd-media-keys --verbose

(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:56.724: Calling method 'HandleKeybinding' for media-keys
(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:56.724: Launching action for key type '15' (on device id 0)
(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:56.724: Media key 'Next' pressed
(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:28.882: calling Next over dbus to mpris client org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.chromium.instance2597

The media keys plugin creates a proxy for chromium first, so the keys don't work.
I close chromium, then this happens:
$ csd-media-keys --verbose

(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:54.857: Creating proxy for for org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify
(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:56.724: Calling method 'HandleKeybinding' for media-keys
(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:56.724: Launching action for key type '15' (on device id 0)
(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:56.724: Media key 'Next' pressed
(csd-media-keys:16681): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: 13:27:56.724: calling Next over dbus to mpris client org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify

And now it works.