Media keys and the desktop

What it is for

While a title plays, your desktop knows it: the keyboard’s media keys play, pause and skip, and the desktop’s media controls — the media widget, the lock screen, a phone paired with the computer — show its name and picture.

How to use it

1. Start a film, an episode or a track.
2. Press the keyboard’s play/pause key, or its next and previous keys, even with Kaveo’s window in the background.
3. Or use the desktop’s media widget: it shows the title, its poster and where you are, and you can drag its bar to move through the title.
4. To keep the title off the desktop, turn off System media controls in Settings › Interface.

Good to know

• Next and previous follow the same list as the player’s own buttons; see Next episode and queue.
• Stop ends the title. The widget’s shuffle and repeat buttons are Kaveo’s own, wherever the playback bar shows them.
• A private title is shown like any other while it plays. Available on Linux for now.