Is there a way to control Elisa from cli?

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Is there a way to send commands to Elise from cli? mainly pause / play; For scripting things e.g. pause music when termdown expires, etc. Thanks

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Yes, you can control Elisa it through MPRIS using programs like playerctl or you can make your own script with qdbus or python dbus.

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Yep, that’s a good answer. In fact it’s a great one since using the MPRIS interface will work in any MPRIS-compatible player, not just Elisa.

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playerctl works wonderful! never knew about MPRIS, thank you