It works in GNOME Shell (and the code for this plugin hasn't changed in years), so I think it's related to the way unity uses its own settings daemon that isn't quite the same as gnome-settings-daemon.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to banshee in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625346 Title: Multimedia keys have no effect on Banshee in Ubuntu 16.04 Status in banshee package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Banshee doesn't repond anymore to multimedia keys in Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity or Gnome-Flashback Expected : In ubuntu 14.04, running Unity or Gnome-Flashback, I could use the multimedia keys I had defined globally in ubuntu (In System Parameters -> Keyboards -> Shortcuts, Sound & Multimedia) to stop, pause, go to the next track, etc. whenever the banshee application was visible or not. But in ubuntu 16.04, the multimedia keys have no effect at all on banshee (within Unity or Gnome-Flashback). I have checked that the related extension "multimedia keys" is well actived. To go further, the log confirms twice that the extension `Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService' fails to work because of a missing GNOME Settings Daemon (whereas this doesn't occur in 16.04). (see hereafer) [Info 20:39:26.017] Running Banshee 2.6.2: [Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2016-04-18 13:50:09 UTC] [...] [Warn 20:39:33.522] Caught an exception - System.ApplicationException: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached. (in `Banshee.MultimediaKeys') at Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService.Banshee.ServiceStack.IExtensionService.Initialize () <0x4025f1d0 + 0x0037f> in <filename unknown>:0 at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.StartExtension (Mono.Addins.TypeExtensionNode node) <0x4024fa70 + 0x00169> in <filename unknown>:0 [Warn 20:39:33.529] Extension `Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService' not started: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached. [...] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1625346/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
