A Perl Script to Pause/Resume Amarok 1.4 Playback on Screensaver/Screenlock

I’ve just uploaded to GitHub a script to pause Amarok 1.4 playback when the screensaver/screenlock starts and up pause again when closed/unlocked. It addresses the issue I was having with the script at http://nxsy.org/getting-amarok-to-pause-when-the-screen-locks-using-python-of-course where the script would start Amarok if it was not running and it would restart playback on screensaver end/unlock regardless of whether it was playing when the screensaver started.

You could start the script on start-up or plug it into Amarok’s script engine to only be active when Amarok is active.

(Oh and in the future I’ll try to avoid posts that just duplicate item’s from other RSS/Atom feeds that don’t add much extra value.)

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