"Jump to track" is not active window when summoned with global hotkey

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Problem still exists with 10.04-x86_64 with audacious 2.3-1ubuntu4. Reproducible even when using regular 'j' hotkey with Audacious as the active window.

Now using nVidia TwinView with Xinerama.

Correction to comment 4 -- nVidia "separate X screen" for 4 displays, with Xinerama.

Hi Ricky,

Can you explain in further detail how you're setting up the keyboard shortcut? I can see in the global keyboard menu options for next/prev track, which on my system laptop to be mapped to the '<<' '>>' hotkeys but I don't think that's what you mean. I can reproduce a jump-to-track function in Audacious via the 'j' key, but there seem not to be any 'Jump to Track' item listed in the global keyboard shortcuts list. Are you adding a custom field? If so, what command line did you use?

I'm also curious that you've mentioned using the nvidia driver several times; can you elaborate on why you think that is a relevant point in this bug? (E.g. did you find it behaved properly when using the -nouveau driver?)

I am using the Global Hotkey plugin. Preferences, Plugins, Global Hotkey. "Jump to file" -> super+J.

That brings up a separate discussion - if this bug is in audacious or in the plugin - but nonetheless, if I just hit J in random places in the program, most of the time the newly-spawned "Jump to track" dialog won't be the active one.

Hm.. so the Global Hotkey plugin calls it "Jump to file" and audacious still calls it "jump to track"..

When the active window is main or equalizer and I hit J, the "jump to track" dialog is active. But when my last active window was the Playlist or an item inside the playlist (just click around the playlist), hitting j makes an inactive jump-to-track dialog.

I don't think the graphics driver is the main cause of the bug but it could be relevant - in case a developer saw a potential problem with this before. I can reproduce this issue with a single display now as well. I have only been using the nvidia restricted driver and not nouveau.

Can you reproduce this issue with audacious in maverick or from my backports PPA [1]?

[1] https://launchpad.net/~bdrung/+archive/backports

I added your PPA to my Software Sources for Lucid and did a safe-upgrade on the audacious packages.

I still see the issue when using the global hotkey plugin, and don't seem to see it when hitting 'j' inside of audacious.

Should I be trying Maverick also or is Lucid backport good enough?

On a side note.. the "Jump to track" dialog gets hidden under any Audacious windows when the Always On Top feature is enabled. I feel like the dialog should have that property as well..?

The lucid backport is identical to the maverick version. You might want to test maverick. This bug is maybe not a bug in audacious, but in compiz.

Hi,

Here is a workaround for the issue with evrouter: http://ptichy.blogspot.com/2014/08/audacious-workaround-jump-to-track-is.html

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.