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play buttons in the taskbar missing in opensuse 15.2

Added by Andreas Schleth about 4 years ago

In the former release of opensuse (leap 15.1), audacious used to display the usual play buttons (pause, play, forward, backward) in a little menu when hovering with the mouse over the taskbar entry of audacious.
So you could stop a playback without getting the whole gui up. This was a nice feature.

Now, hovering over the taskbar entry shows a small box which just displays the current title and the a-icon. If you click there, the GUI pops up.

The play buttons are missing in the current release and I have no idea where to look: is it suse, is it KDE or QT or is it an arcane setting in audacious itself?
Or do I need an additional package to enable this feature?

opensuse leap 15.2
audacious 3.9 from the suse repo
kde-plasma 5.71.0


Replies (3)

RE: play buttons in the taskbar missing in opensuse 15.2 - Added by John Lindgren about 4 years ago

Try updating Audacious to 4.0.5; there were some KDE integration issues that were fixed somewhat recently.

RE: play buttons in the taskbar missing in opensuse 15.2 - Added by Andreas Schleth about 4 years ago

Hi John,

this was exactly what solved this issue. The buttons are back. Thanks!

However, this comes at a cost: I chose to install audacious 4.0.5 from the tumbleweed repo and this in turn pulls in ~350 other updated packages from python 3.8 (instead of 3.6) to new QT-versions to new kernel firmware ... m-|
So, now my system is an eclectic mix of standard Leap 15.2 (stable) and Tumbleweed (rolling release).

Therefore, I would NOT recommend this route for everybody. Maybe building from sources would be better or using another community repo...

Anyway. 4.0.5 is the solution.

Andreas

RE: play buttons in the taskbar missing in opensuse 15.2 - Added by Andreas Schleth about 4 years ago

For the benefit of other opensuse users of Leap 15.2

This is the repo to go to: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bran0k:/branches:/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/

It was a really bad idea to mix Leap and Tumbleweed repositories! (my last post)
This will only result in > 1000 packages being replaced or updated and leaves the system in an unmaintainable state.

With the repo above, the whole process is painless. Thanks to Cedric for providing the repo.

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