> One of the many neat features it has is global shortcuts. I use this a > lot at work to transcribe radio interviews. It allows you to control > for example Rewind or the Pause function with a global key (I use > NUMPAD-0). That way you don't need to leave focus of the text editor > application to stop and rewind a missed section. This is sooo cool and > a major time saver. If someone could add this feature to alsaplayer it > would be wonderful... what a cool idea! wouldnt this be a windowmanager specific thing? what wm are you using? i guess any decent wm should be able to assign an arbitrary keyboard command to a program. i already have a program which acts as an intermediary between apache and alsaplayer so if i can work out how to do this in the ion wm i'll give it a shot! how many seconds for the rewind, 10? cheers -- Tim Orford
