Hello.

I would like to use my multimedia keys on the laptop.

As I have seen in kde, they are recognized already, very good.

But I would like to use the play-pause, ffd, rwd and stop button
in a special way.
After pressing one of them , a programm or script is called, which does:

a ) determine the entries ( in a list ) of assigned applications to
be controlles by this mm-buttons.
( The list can be edited, I decide to add vlc, amarok, flash
plugin for firefox )

b ) determine, which of the applications are running actually

c ) determine, which of this applications has the focus ( means,
which of them ( if all more running ) is "the active one".

d ) issue its shell command, which corresponds to the keyhit (
play, pause, fwd, rwd, stop )

Now my question : Is it all possible via shell/and or x-script?

If not, i will have to code something, i suppose.


THX in advance.


Greetings


me-$-on

The answer is 42, errrh, yes, to all of the above.




Cheers,
Tink

So, it is possible to determine the actual running xapplications ( even the one, which has already the focus ) via shell script ?

Ok, i can imagine issuing ps -aux | grep vlc , for example.

And how can I determine that it is "actually in the front" ?


Greetings,


me-$-on.