Some key bindings do not work reliably when also using gnome-settings-daemon
I have a shell script in my home directory that lets me control spotify and I'm trying to use it with these lines in my i3 config.
bindsym X86AudioPlay exec sh /home/kviktor/spotify-control play
bindsym X86AudioNext exec sh /home/kviktor/spotify-control next
bindsym X86AudioPrev exec sh /home/kviktor/spotify-control prev
(The script can be found on GitHub)
The commands work reliably, when started from a shell. However they do not always work when using the key bindings. Sometimes this image pops and nothing else happens:
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and i3 version 4.7.2 (2014-01-23, branch "tags/4.7.2"). Spotify is started with exec from my i3 configuration. I also have gnome-settings-daemon running.
This window is definitely not from *i3*, so I'd guess that it is an issue with spotify-control. So the question is: does that also happen when you call it from a shell?
`exec sh /home/kviktor/spotify-control play` into my shell works like a charm. It seems like the script is not even ran.
While `exec` is also a valid shell command, here it is a *i3* command and **not** part of the actual command, which in this case starts with `sh`. Could you post a link to the source of that script or, if it is not too long, add it to the question?
This is it https://github.com/mgarratt/spotify-control/blob/master/spotify-control
Ok, so the script only sends messages to spotify via DBus and nothing else. That only leaves the Spotify as creator of the image. I would say that `bindsym` works just fine, as indeed *something* is happening, just not the expected thing. There may be an issue with Spotify itself.