NAME
xfmedia-remote - Xfce Media Player remote tool
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xfmedia-remote command, which allows you to remotely interact with the Xfmedia program.
xfmedia is a lightweight and easy to use media player for the Xfce Desktop Environment. The Gtk+ GUI focuses on playing and managing audio files, but, being based on xine, supports video as well.
SYNTAX
xfmedia-remote [options]
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
-
Prints help message and exits.
- -V, --version
-
Prints version information and exits.
- --session=N
-
Specify the number of an already-running instance of Xfmedia. (Defaults to 0, or the first instance found).
- --ping
-
Checks to see if an instance of Xfmedia is running.
- -p, --play[=N]
-
Causes Xfmedia to play the file at playlist idx N. If N is not specified, Xfmedia will play the currently selected entry, or, if no item is selected, the first entry. If used in conjunction with --playlist-add, will cause Xfmedia to play the newly-added entry.
- --toggle
-
Causes Xfmedia to pause if playing, or play if paused.
- --pause
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Causes Xfmedia to pause/unpause.
- --stop
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Causes Xfmedia to stop playback.
- --previous
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Causes Xfmedia to play the previous entry in the playlist.
- --next
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Causes Xfmedia to play the next entry in the playlist. If Xfmedia is in shuffle mode, a new entry will be selected randomly.
- -a, --playlist-add=FILE
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Adds FILE to the end of the playlist.
- -r, --playlist-remove=N
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Removes the specified entry from the playlist.
- -c, --playlist-clear
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Removes all entries from the playlist.
- -l, --playlist-load=FILE
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Loads the specified playlist. Note that this does NOT first clear the playlist.
- -s, --playlist-save=FILE
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Saves the current playlist to the specified FILE.
- -Q, --quit
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Instructs Xfmedia to quit.
- -j, --jump-to-file
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Causes Xfmedia to show the main window (if not visible) and show the jump-to-file entry box.
AUTHOR
xfmedia was written by Brian Tarricone <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Rudy Godoy <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).