{"id":7828,"date":"2018-06-13T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2018-06-13T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:39:01","slug":"enable-media-player-controls-system-menu-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/enable-media-player-controls-system-menu-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Media Player Controls in System Tray Menu in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu used to show media playback controls in the Sound menu of system tray. The functionality has been removed since Ubuntu switched to Gnome Desktop.<\/p>\n<p>In Ubuntu 18.04, you can easily re-enable the feature via a Gnome Shell extension called Media Player Indicator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-controls-submenu-295x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-controls-submenu-295x450.jpg 295w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-controls-submenu-393x600.jpg 393w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-controls-submenu.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To install the extension, open <b>Ubuntu Software<\/b>, search for and install <code>Media Player Indicator<\/code>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/install-mediaplayerindicator-450x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/install-mediaplayerindicator-450x310.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/install-mediaplayerindicator-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/install-mediaplayerindicator-600x413.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/install-mediaplayerindicator.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, all MPRIS Version 2 capable media players, including <b>VLC<\/b>, <b>SMPlayer<\/b>, <b>Audacious<\/b>, <b>Clementine<\/b>, <b>Rhythmbox<\/b>, and more, will be listed in the system tray menu after you launched the media players. <\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> To configure the Gnome extension, launch the settings via either Ubuntu Software or Gnome Tweak Tool:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-control-settings-450x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-control-settings-450x374.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-control-settings-600x499.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/media-control-settings.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu used to show media playback controls in the Sound menu of system tray. The functionality has been removed since Ubuntu switched to Gnome Desktop. In Ubuntu 18.04, you can easily re-enable the feature via a Gnome Shell extension called Media Player Indicator. 1. To install the extension, open Ubuntu Software, search for and install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1545],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-media-playback-control"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}