From 5e8fa266d7435c89a9b78fd520fea66926723909 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Fucini <dfucini@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:41:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Control media players with playerctl from media keys and
 headphones

Run playerctld as a dbus unit with Restart=on-failure, start it through that
unit on D-Bus activation, tie mpris-proxy to it, and bind the XF86 media keys
to playerctl in xmonad.
---
 .../user/mpris-proxy.service.d/mpris-proxy-after-mpd.conf    | 2 --
 .config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/override.conf     | 4 ++++
 .config/systemd/user/playerctld.service.d/override.conf      | 5 +++++
 .config/xmonad/xmonad.hs                                     | 5 +++++
 .../services/org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld.service       | 4 ++++
 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/mpris-proxy-after-mpd.conf
 create mode 100644 .config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/override.conf
 create mode 100644 .config/systemd/user/playerctld.service.d/override.conf
 create mode 100644 .local/share/dbus-1/services/org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld.service

diff --git a/.config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/mpris-proxy-after-mpd.conf b/.config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/mpris-proxy-after-mpd.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c4335e..0000000
--- a/.config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/mpris-proxy-after-mpd.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-After=mpd-mpris.service
diff --git a/.config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/override.conf b/.config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/override.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88c5c99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service.d/override.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[Unit]
+Wants=playerctld.service
+After=playerctld.service mpDris2.service
+PartOf=playerctld.service
diff --git a/.config/systemd/user/playerctld.service.d/override.conf b/.config/systemd/user/playerctld.service.d/override.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28b9120
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/systemd/user/playerctld.service.d/override.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[Service]
+Type=dbus
+ExecStart=
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/playerctld
+Restart=on-failure
diff --git a/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs b/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
index df48f03..f725a6b 100644
--- a/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
+++ b/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ myConfig =
     `additionalKeys` [ ((0, xF86XK_AudioMute), spawn "pactl set-sink-mute $(pactl get-default-sink) toggle"),
                        ((0, xF86XK_AudioLowerVolume), spawn "pactl set-sink-volume $(pactl get-default-sink) -10%"),
                        ((0, xF86XK_AudioRaiseVolume), spawn "wpctl set-volume -l 1.0 @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ 10%+"),
+                       ((0, xF86XK_AudioPlay), spawn "playerctl play-pause"),
+                       ((0, xF86XK_AudioPause), spawn "playerctl pause"),
+                       ((0, xF86XK_AudioStop), spawn "playerctl stop"),
+                       ((0, xF86XK_AudioNext), spawn "playerctl next"),
+                       ((0, xF86XK_AudioPrev), spawn "playerctl previous"),
                        ((0, xF86XK_Calculator), spawn "qalculate-gtk"),
                        ((0, xF86XK_HomePage), spawn myBrowser),
                        ((0, xF86XK_Mail), namedScratchpadAction myScratchpads "Mail"),
diff --git a/.local/share/dbus-1/services/org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld.service b/.local/share/dbus-1/services/org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e843801
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.local/share/dbus-1/services/org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld.service
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[D-BUS Service]
+Name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld
+Exec=/usr/bin/playerctld
+SystemdService=playerctld.service