I am talking about the pause/play, previous song and next song keys. On my Dell xps 13 laptop, those are f4, f5 and f6 (or fn + f4, fn + f5, fn + f6)
When opening Rhythmbox from the command line: (this is after having opened and closed it once, so the media keys were already not working) Opening and using rhythmbox does not print error messages, but closing does: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GObject.py:502: Warning: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2735: instance '0x5635f68af300' has no handler with id '12157' return func(*args, **kwargs) /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GObject.py:502: Warning: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2735: instance '0x5635f68af300' has no handler with id '12156' return func(*args, **kwargs) /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GObject.py:502: Warning: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2735: instance '0x5635f68af300' has no handler with id '40060' return func(*args, **kwargs) I will now restart my machine to launch rhythmbox the first time from the command line (with working media keys) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1890494 Title: Closing Rhythmbox does not free the media keys Status in rhythmbox package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Closing Rhythmbox, does not free the media keys, and no program can use them after that, not even Rhythmbox if you restart it. This seems to be very close to bug #1036489, but that one was active 8 years ago, and was marked as expired 6 years ago. Restarting the machine frees the media keys again. Steps to reproduce: 1. Verify that the media keys work (restart the machine if not) 2. close rhythmbox with right click on the taskbar icon, use "stop & quit" 3. reopen rhythmbox, the media keys do not work. 1. Verify that the media keys work (restart the machine if not) 2. End the 'rhythmbox' process 3. reopen rhythmbox, the media keys do not work. 1. Verify that the media keys work (restart the machine if not) 2. in rhythmbox go to preferences -> plugins -> click preferences for any plugin 3. click the 'restart' next to "Restart the player for the changes to take effect" 4. once rhythmbox restarts, the media keys do not work anymore. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Release: 20.04 $ apt-cache policy rhythmbox rhythmbox: Installed: 3.4.4-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.4.4-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.4.4-1ubuntu2 500 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1890494/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
