Do you want a simple menu and music player to start up at boot with global hotkeys?

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You know you do.

So did I.

This guide is for people like to quickly be able to boot into a menu to select the rom they wish to run - no more messing about with emulators at the front end and that stylus can stay in it's holster! This also allows you to stop start and skip your music collection no matter what application you're in.

It takes about 3 minutes to setup so strap yourself in for an adventure.

Things you'll need - deadbeef and pandafe downloaded from pnd store.

Open deadbeef - add all your music in. Then go to

Edit > Preferences > Hotkeys

Screenshot: www.imgur.com/RLZlCox

You then want to TOGGLE PAUSE as 3 and tick the box for global hotkey.

You then want to NEXT  as 4 and tick the box for global hotkey.

You then want to PREVIOUS as 2 and tick the box for global hotkey.

You then want to PLAY as 1 and tick the box for global hotkey.

OK great. So now when you use deadbeef you can pause/play skip and previous just by the buttons. You can be browsing the web, playing an emulator etc. and now stop and start music as you please!

Tres excitement non?!

OK now open 2 empty text documents and copy and paste the below code into one text document...


#!/bin/bash

pnd_run /media/YOUR_MEMORYCARD_HERE/pandora/menu/pandafe.pnd
and copy the 2nd below bit into other one


#!/bin/bash

pnd_run /media/YOUR_MEMORYCARD_HERE/pandora/menu/deadbeef.pnd
Now all you need to do is change the "YOUR_MEMORYCARD_HERE to the name of your memory card so it you named your memory card bob it the line should be

pnd_run /media/bob/pandora/menu/deadbeef.pnd

ATTENTION: also pay attention to whether you saved deadbeef to your /pandora/menu folder as you may have saved it to /pandora/desktop/ or /pandora/apps  in which the above line needs to reflect that 

Now - you will right click your deadbeef.sh file and go to

Screenshot: www.imgur.com/FCrTYN4

Properties > Permissions

Then you will give Read and write access like below as well as tick "allow this file to run as a program"

Lot's of effort so far now but it'll be worth it.

Now we click on Pandora button and go

Settings - Desktop  - Session and Startup

Then click application autostart tab

Then click ADD

Screenshot: www.imgur.com/FWRgK2o

Then on the command line click folder icon and go to your memory card and select the deadbeef.sh you either downloaded or copied and pasted. Name it deadbeef and do same for pandafe.sh

Now click close and restart and voila - your pandora boots into Pandafe so you can quickly select your rom you want to play whilst having hotkeys for a music player giving a more console like experience.

 

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screenshots are gone already? Wanted to try out...