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.
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+[D-BUS Service]
+Name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld
+Exec=/usr/bin/playerctld
+SystemdService=playerctld.service