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How to make a launcher for Spotify in Linux that works with Spotify links
When launching Spotify in Linux by default the deb package comes with a desktop file that contains an exec that essentially just runs the "spotify" binary. Spotify does have a dbus interface for certain things. We can look for an existing process and if one is found we throw the Spotify link into dbus instead of opening another Spotify instance.
I wrote a simple launcher replacement. Just set your desktop file to use this instead of the default.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # check if spotify is already running and if so just pass the uri in | |
| if pgrep -f "Spotify/[0-9].[0-9].[0-9]" > /dev/null | |
| then | |
| busline=busline=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.OpenUri $1 | |
| echo "Spotify is already running" | |
| echo "Sending ${busline} to dbus" | |
| if command -v qdbus &> /dev/null | |
| then | |
| qdbus $busline | |
| exit | |
| fi | |
| if command -v dbus-send &> /dev/null | |
| then | |
| dbus-send $busline | |
| exit | |
| fi | |
| echo "No bus dispatcher found." | |
| # otherwise launch spotify | |
| else | |
| spotify $1 &>/dev/null & | |
| fi |