I am interested in having Quodlibet show up in the "Default Applications" menu in System Settings > Details, how can I do this?
2 Answers
To make any music player that comes with sound indicator integration the default player in there we may from 13.04 install and run unity-tweak-tool . Open the "Panel" settings and choose any of installed players:
The example above will then make Guayadeque the default player in the sound indicator:
Of course if we prefer not to install an additional application, or if a player such as Quod Libet does not come with full indicator sound integration we can also do this with dconf-editor (from dconf-tools in Ubuntu < 13.04):
Quod Libet need the MPRIS plugin (quodlibet-plugins ) for full player control.
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Though I'd rather know the inner workings of the system, your post is very complete and will possibly be most helpful for anybody who reads this Q-A, thanks for your effort! May 12, 2013 at 20:40
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@WolterHellmund you already did the MIME approach nicely. I felt people who come here by Google might also want to hear about Inidicator integration.– TakkatMay 12, 2013 at 20:44
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@Takkat - I tried the dconf trick just now and now Quod Libet appears in the menu...which is great. However, when I click on it, nothing happens...just doesn't run it.– DaveSep 19, 2013 at 17:25
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1Installing and enabling the mpris plugin for Quod on 13.04 now works and has now allowed me perfect control from the sound indicator menu. Start/stop/pause -- everything Just Works.– DaveSep 30, 2013 at 15:07
Oh well, read about and found it: just make sure you reference quodlibet.desktop
in your mimeapps.list
file (local copy at ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
).
You can set it default right away just by having the following line in the mentioned file: audio/x-vorbis+ogg=quodlibet.desktop
.