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Connecting media keys globally to foobar2000 on wine

Posted: 2022-12-04 13:20:20Edited: 2022-12-04 14:24:11
Chronological date: 2022-12-04

I consider foobar2000 still one of the best audio players, mainly because of it's excellent media library system (for why even DeadBeef did not cut it for me!).

Of course it runs well on linux with wine, however media keys (the extra ones on most keyboards), did not go through when the window was unfocused!

foobar2000 audio player screenshot

Further investication revealed that even native applications such as VLC did not receive the keypresses when unfocused