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Quick hack to toggle play/pause in SMPlayer externally for global hotkey binding
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toggle_smplayer_pause.sh
#!/bin/bash
OLD_WID="$(xdotool getactivewindow)"
WID=""
until [ -n "$WID" ]; do
WID="$(xdotool search --name '[-][ ]SMPlayer' 2>/dev/null)"
done
echo "$WID"
# This seems to be race-y and this is the best mitigation I could find
# (--sync tends to hang xdotool when it would work, windowfocus is unreliable)
xdotool windowactivate "$WID"
sleep 0.1 # http://serverfault.com/a/469249
xdotool key --window "$WID" space # EDIT THIS LINE TO CHANGE ACTION
xdotool windowactivate "$OLD_WID"
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