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THX1138

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Registered: 2019-01-14

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Audtty and audacious - any experts?

I am hoping someone might be an expert in using audtty to control audacious,
AND know how to achieve, probably, the impossible.

audtty is a terminal application that has the ability to control Audacious while
audacious is running. Currently I have audtty on desktop1 and audacious on desktop2

I would like to make it so that IF audacious is running audtty will open
AND if audtty is run THEN audacious will open. Total symbiosis.

Here's the hard part. Is it possible to open audacious without the gui showing?
if so, please suggest some reading I could do, in order to research this myself

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PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

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Re: Audtty and audacious - any experts?

Here's the hard part. Is it possible to open audacious without the gui showing?
if so, please suggest some reading I could do, in order to research this myself

Check the settings in audacious. I think there is a box you can check so that audacious opens in the systray/open minimized. Then just the systray icon will be visible.

If not, assuming you're on openbox, you can use the "iconic" setting in the per-app section of the ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml file to have audacious open iconified.

Something similar to:

  <application class="Audacious">
    <desktop>2</desktop>
    <iconic>yes</iconic>
  </application>

audacious opens iconified on desktop 2.

You should be able to write a keybind to have both open at the same time. Something simple like:

xterm -e audtty & audacious

might do it. I've never used audtty. Combined with the above per-app setting would have audacity open on desktop 2 and a terminal with audtty on the active desktop.

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loutch

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Registered: 2015-12-12

Posts: 896

Re: Audtty and audacious - any experts?

hello

i used this script in a launcher for audacious & conky to launch these two programs at same time

You can change the conky part for audtty

#!/bin/bash

PROG_NAME1="conky -c /home/$USER/.conky/audacious/conkyrcl12"	# first program Nom du programme à  démarrer/arrêter.
PROG_NAME2="/usr/bin/audacious" # second program Nom du programme à  démarrer/arrêter.

PROCESSPID1=$(pgrep -f /home/$USER/.conky/audacious/conkyrcl12)	#Pid for one  Récupère le PID du processus.
PROCESSPID2=$(pgrep -f "usr/bin/audacious")	# pid for scond Récupère le PID du processus.


if [[ "$PROCESSPID1" != ""  && "$PROCESSPID2" != "" ]]; then	# Si les deux processus existe alors on le(s) kill.
        kill $PROCESSPID1 && echo "Stop $PROG_NAME1 (PID: $PROCESSPID1)"
        kill $PROCESSPID2  && echo "Stop $PROG_NAME2 (PID: $PROCESSPID2)"
else	# Si aucun processus on démarre le programme.
        kill $PROCESSPID1 
        $PROG_NAME1 & 
        echo "Start $PROG_NAME1"
        kill $PROCESSPID2  
        $PROG_NAME2 & 
        echo "Start $PROG_NAME2"
        if [[ "$PROCESSPID1" == ""  || "$PROCESSPID2" == "" ]]; then	# Si un des processus n'existe pas alors on le(s) kill.
                kill $PROCESSPID1 && echo "Stop $PROG_NAME1 (PID: $PROCESSPID1)"
                kill $PROCESSPID2  && echo "Stop $PROG_NAME2 (PID: $PROCESSPID2)"
                echo "Il y a eu un souci au lancement tout a été coupé"
        fi
fi

exit 0

if this may help .

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