[Bug 149507] Amarok's "global hotkeys" become stuck often

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: amarok

Hello! I'm using Amarok on an otherwise Gnome-exclusive Ubuntu Gutsy
box.

One thing I'm very fond of is using global hotkeys to control the music
player (in this case Amarok) from any application. For example, I have
hotkeys set for skipping to the next track, and for showing/hiding the
player's window.

The problem is that very often these become stuck. This means that I'd
press a hot-key (Start-; for instance to show the player), and Amarok
starts doing the given command in a loop forever. Since the show/hide
command is a toggle, this means that Amarok becomes unusable (no command
works anymore), and uses up all the processor time which makes it hard
to kill it. Skipping to the next track has the same effect: since I use
'smart' playlists, which refill themselves as the music plays, Amarok
gets into an infinite loop through my entire collection, using even more
processor time.

Sometimes the show/hide bug stops if I press the shortcut a lot, but
it's not easy to reproduce. Since it happens randomly, I can't think of
any way of debugging this.

** Affects: amarok (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Amarok's "global hotkeys" become stuck often
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