Gambas ONE

If I go to YouTube in Chrome and play a song, a player control is available in the system tray.



I would like to access this from within Gambas.

Has anybody got any idea how to do this.

Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon Desktop

I think that this would be either horrifying difficult or it would depend on something made public by the player application - dbus?
The horrible method would involve somehow finding the application icon on the screen and somehow activating it with generated mouse actions (and I dont think that is easy either).
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apparently the cinnamon sound applet uses dbus mpris
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... ec/latest/
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... index.html

Thanks Bruce. I think, as thatbruse says, this would not be easy. I'd need to understand dbus first.

I've just seen mps-youtube (and others) on the command line which I think could be run from EXEC[].
Just a thought!

I've just seen mps-youtube (and others) on the command line which I think could be run from EXEC[].
Just a thought!

Thanks Bill, but I have already written the player, and it uses youtube-dl to download the music I like. What I want to do is connect it to the built-in music controls that most distros have. As you can see above, Chrome allows Mint to control the playing of the track/video.

Here's a simple way

xdotool key XF86AudioRaiseVolume
xdotool key XF86AudioLowerVolume
xdotool key XF86AudioMute

Unfortunately, these tools only do what I have already mastered. To change the volume I use: -

Shell "amixer -D pulse set Master " & Str(SliderVol.Value) & "%"

And to pause the music: -

MediaPlayer1.Pause()

I was after using the controls on the desktop to control my program (see picture in first post).