Clementine Music Player and StreamZap Remote

The Clementine Player allows some types of remotes, but I use a StreamZap to control mythtv, mplayer, etc. I thought it would be easy to add another program, Clementine, to my lirc configuration, but it turned out to be somewhat convoluted. I suspect that the Clementine X window does not have a "name." With some searching I found this on Stack Exchange This pointed me to "xdotool" which I installed with yum. At this point, I should say something about my environment:

it's an HTPC, that I use in my living room

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
3 Gb RAM
Gigabyte GV-N220OC-1GI GeForce GT 220
Fedora 20 3.12.8-300.fc20.x86_64
xorg-x11-server 1.14.4-5.fc20
KDE 4.11.5
Clementine 1.2.1
xdotool version 2.20110530.1

The solution suggested by the StackExchange answer used xdotool like this

xdotool key --windowid <window> <keystroke>

which didn't work for me. After some experimenting, I arrived at

xdotool windowactivate --sync <window> key <keystroke>

Once, that seemed to be working, I defined some scripts and updated my .lircrc file as follows.

.lircrc


# Clementine Music Player Commands

# Play/Pause
begin
remote = *
prog = irexec
button = 2
repeat = 0
config = /usr/local/scripts/clementine.play.pause.toggle.sh &
end

# Previous Track
begin
remote = *
prog = irexec
button = 1
repeat = 0
config = /usr/local/scripts/clementine.previous.track.sh &
end

# Next Track
begin
remote = *
prog = irexec
button = 3
repeat = 0
config = /usr/local/scripts/clementine.next.track.sh &
end

scripts


::::::::::::::
clementine.play.pause.toggle.sh
::::::::::::::

WINDOWID=$(xdotool search --class Clementine | head -1)
xdotool windowactivate --sync $WINDOWID key F6

::::::::::::::
clementine.previous.track.sh
::::::::::::::

WINDOWID=$(xdotool search --class Clementine | head -1)
xdotool windowactivate --sync $WINDOWID key F5

::::::::::::::
clementine.next.track.sh
::::::::::::::

WINDOWID=$(xdotool search --class Clementine | head -1)
xdotool windowactivate --sync $WINDOWID key F8

I also have a couple of .lircrc configs to play and kill Clementine


# Green Button
begin
remote = *
prog = irexec
button = GREEN
repeat = 0
config = /usr/bin/clementine &
end

# Yellow Button
begin
remote = *
prog = irexec
button = YELLOW
repeat = 0
config = /usr/bin/killall -v clementine
end

I have seen others searching for a way to use lirc and Clementine. I hope this helps.

To contact me, please write to: mike [at] PCfellow [dot] com

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