playerctld(1)

playerctld1

Maintain an ordered list of controllable media players for playerctl

Usage

playerctld [OPTION] COMMAND

playerctld --help

Overview

playerctld runs as a user-controlled daemon, monitoring controllable media players for playerctl in the order that they are started. playerctld allows a user to navigate forwards and backwards through the list of available media players using the shift and unshift commands.

Commands

daemon

start playerctld as a daemon

shift

shift to next controllable player

unshift

unshift to previous controllable player

Options

-h, --help

show usage details and exit

Releases

3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13

Reporting bugs

Upstream bug tracker: https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl/issues

Author

This manual page is based on the playerctld program. It was created by Nick Morrott ⟨[email protected]⟩\c for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others

From playerctl 2.4.1-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.