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Bug 759954 - Running evince blocks multimedia keys
Running evince blocks multimedia keys
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 617615
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-12-29 13:02 UTC by gnome.org
Modified: 2017-07-19 17:40 UTC
See Also:
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Description gnome.org 2015-12-29 13:02:42 UTC 
Running evince blocks VLC and Amarok (and probably other players) from reading the multimedia keys (Play/Pause, Stop, Next/Previous Track; Volume keys work fine), at least on Wayland (I think on X11 as well, but I haven't confirmed that yet). I suspect this is related to #547164 and #617615, except that presentation mode does not even start when I use the keys, they just don't work.
Starting the player after evince does not work around the problem.

To Reproduce:
Start GNOME (Wayland)
Start Player, Play music
Press “Play/Pause” twice ⇒ should pause, then resume playback
Start evince with a document (e. g. from the file manager)
Press “Play/Pause”
⇒ expected: should pause playback; actual: does nothing visible
Comment 1 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2016-09-29 19:22:32 UTC 
Perhaps related to the code in:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/tree/shell/ev-media-player-keys.c#n97
Comment 2 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2016-09-29 19:23:05 UTC 
FWIW, I do not have Wayland, so I am just guessing.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2017-07-19 17:40:32 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 617615 ***