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PLAYERCTLD(1) User Commands PLAYERCTLD(1)

playerctld - maintain an ordered list of controllable media players for playerctl

playerctld [OPTION] COMMAND

playerctld --help

playerctld runs as a user-controlled daemon, monitoring controllable media players for playerctl in the order that they are started. playerctld allows a user to navigate forwards and backwards through the list of available media players using the shift and unshift commands.

start playerctld as a daemon
shift to next controllable player
unshift to previous controllable player

show usage details and exit

Upstream bug tracker: https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl/issues

Copyright (c) Tony Crisci

This manual page is based on the playerctld program. It was created by Nick Morrott <nickm@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others

playerctl(1)

November 2020 2.4.1