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Before I switched to bspwm, I used KDE/Plasma 5. In KDE, I could use my media keys to play/pause, etc in vlc, spotify and even in Firefox with an addon (youtube, netflix, pretty much everything worked). When both VLC, Firefox and Spotify were open, the media keys controlled the last used player, regardless if the window is open or not.

I'd like to get the same functionality in bspwm.

Right now I'm using playerctl -p spotify play-pause to control spotify, which is bound to XF86AudioPlay in sxhkdrc. I'd also like to do this with VLC, but playerctl needs to know which player to play/pause, if both are open.

Is there a way to get the same KDE/Plasma functionality for both VLC, Firefox and Spotify? If not, is there a way to determine which player was last active? That way I could write a script to play/pause only the last active player.

EDIT:

Looks like the Plasma Integration add-on for firefox still works with playerctl and bspwm, so sites like Youtube still respond to controls, great!

What I only need now is a way to get the latest active player, so when Spotify happens to be open in the background and I'm watching something on VLC, it knows to control VLC and not Spotify when I press media keys.

playerctl -l when multiple media players are open shows me that Plasma Browser Integration is always on top, meaning that will always have top priority with media keys. Second is VLC, third is Spotify.