[LAU] Toggle Jack Transport CLI

Yassin Philip philcm at gnu.org
Tue Nov 15 21:31:02 UTC 2016


On 15/11/16 16:08, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> On 11/15/2016 03:19 PM, Yassin Philip wrote:
>> But found no way to detect the transport status ; Is there a way to know
>> it?
> I use this very hacky script that I bind to my Play media key (I use
> openbox for this):
>
> ---
> #!/bin/bash
>
> function jack_transport_status() {
>    jack_showtime | head -n1 & &> /dev/null
> }
>
> if jack_transport_status | grep -q -i stopped
> then
>    echo play | jack_transport &> /dev/null
>    killall jack_showtime
> else
>    echo stop | jack_transport &> /dev/null
>    killall jack_showtime
> fi
> ---
>
I can't get it to work, somehow it chokes at the showtime cmd, that 
refuses to give back the prompt..? I mean, just exec 
jack_transport_status in the shell should return, right?
>
>
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