Is it possible to set keybindings to control mplayer from the window manager?

[the dsc]

So instead of needing to have mplayer focused in order to its own keybinding to work, we could control it from anywhere...

like "xmms --play" and things like that, but with mplayer

[i92guboj]

Mplayer can be controled via a FIFO, for example.

FVWM Forums • View topic - Control mplayer via Fvwm menus

That's an example for fvwm, but it should be easily adaptable to any arbitrary WM. You just need to figure a way to bind it correctly in your wm config.

[SagaciousKJB]

Mplayer can be controled via a FIFO, for example.

FVWM Forums • View topic - Control mplayer via Fvwm menus

That's an example for fvwm, but it should be easily adaptable to any arbitrary WM. You just need to figure a way to bind it correctly in your wm config.

Good find, I was trying something like this

cat pipe | mplayer -slave -

and it definitely didn't want to work like that.

I just set up a couple of shortcuts in KDE, under the Acessibillity settings.