Press and hold the play-pause key to go back to the beginning of the song

[tkna91]

Sorry if this is my mistake.

The following settings are made on sway.

~/.config/sway/config

bindsym XF86AudioPlay exec playerctl play-pause

When I press and hold the XF86AudioPlay key, it takes me back to the beginning of the song.
When I am transcribing text with the footswitch, I tend to press and hold the key, so is there any way to stop this behavior of going back to the beginning of the song?

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OS,Version:

• OS: Arch Linux x86_64
• Kernel: 6.1.10-arch1-1
• WM: sway

$ paru -Qs deadbeef
local/deadbeef-git r11279.81150a9d4-1
    A GTK+ audio player for GNU/Linux (devel branch)
local/deadbeef-jack-git 10.62d1e6a-1
    jack plugin for the DeaDBeeF music player
local/deadbeef-mpris2-plugin 1.16-1
    MPRISv2 plugin for the DeaDBeeF music player
local/deadbeef-plugin-fb-gtk3-git r166.g355e614-3
    A filebrowser plugin for the DeaDBeeF audio player
local/deadbeef-plugin-waveform-gtk3-git 0.5.r91.g4afd845-1
    Waveform Seekbar plugin for DeaDBeeF audio player GTK3
$

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

What behavior do you expect when you press and hold this key?

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

You can insert a delay after the "playerctl play-pause", e.g. by calling sleep.
This would reduce the chance of race condition happening. But I'm not sure whether it would give you the result that you want.

[tkna91]

You can insert a delay after the "playerctl play-pause", e.g. by calling sleep.

I was able to make it work that way by doing the following settings. Thanks.

bindsym XF86AudioPlay exec flock --nonblock /run/user/$UID/playerctl-play-pause.lock --command "playerctl play-pause ; sleep 0.1"

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What behavior do you expect when you press and hold this key?

It seems to me that you are probably correct that it just repeats play-pause and does not go back to the beginning of the song.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/Player_Interface.html#Method:PlayPause

I repeated play-pause against the YouTube player in the browser and that seems to be the behavior.

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