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I’ve been using Ubuntu on my home, work and laptop boxes for months now.  At work I listen to music almost all the time and find xmms to be my player of choice.  I hate all the players that want to be my music manager, etc. – I just want a decent mp3 player and xmms fits the bill.  The problem is that xmms is not a Gnome app, which is was Ubuntu has all the standard key bindings for.  But I have found a solution that works quite well… and doesn’t require a bunch of custom configs and hacking files all over, etc.

In the Preferred Applications settings applet in System -> Preferences, in the Multimedia tab, I set the “Multimedia Player” setting to “Custom” and then use “xmms -t” as the Command – don’t check “Run in terminal”.  Then in the Keyboard Shortcuts applet, I set “Media player” to use the Pause/Break key.

Now when if xmms not running, it’s launched and if it is running, play/pause is toggled.

That’s all I needed!  Now I’m a happy camper!

Maybe I should look into xmms2, but haven’t bothered yet.

Ok, I hate test posts, but you need ‘em!  I’m testing ScribeFire right now.  Seems ok to me – and I’m not happy with the WordPress editor.

Note: You can do away with the default “powered by” in the settings – click the arrows on the left.

The thing I really dig about ScribeFire is that it’s a Firefox extension so it’s always available without firing up an application.

Here’s a nice tip for when you accidentally add a mis-spelled word to Firefox’s dictionary.

I should have posted this a while ago, but better late than never!

Hey everyone! It’s not just Jen any more, but Dr. Jen! Yes, Jen graduated with a Doctorate of Psychology from Xavier. Ain’t she great!