Special extra/mini buttons

Using the specbuttons plugin, you can define additional shortcuts. This is meant as convenience - allows to start other audio apps or system ontrols from within streamtuner2.

The settings list can be found with th plugin options in the 🔌 Features tab. It follows the layout of the player/recording configuration. Except that it lists icons and their according action commands:

Icon	Cmd
gtk-media-forward	vlc next
terminal	xterm
volume	pavucontrol
database	./myscript "%url" "%title"
./import.png	audacity %pls

gtk-icons

Note that the icon name can also be that of a Gtk-builtin icon. Their names always start with "gtk-", for example "gtk-cancel". You can find a list of all available builtins under http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/gtk-stock-items.html.

PNG icons

In case you enter something like "player", the icon name will be searched for and expanded to an absolute PNG filename. For example "totem" might become /usr/share/icons/HighContrast/16x16/apps/totem.png.

This won't always yield the exact icon / theme / or size you wanted. So it's sometimes necessary to look up the complete path yourself.

Commands

You can define any graphical or commandline application to be invoked by your custom toolbar button. Foremost you want to invoke audio controls of course, or start/stop players.

Placeholders like %title and %url or %pls and %m3u are supported for all commands as well. So you can have additional play/record shortcuts.

icon rows

With the "number of rows" setting, more buttons can be packed together. It looks okay with up to 3 rows - when using the large sized main toolbar. The defined icon shortcuts will always be packed column-wise.

The icon list isn't ordered. So you cannot define which button appears first. (Albeit the plugin config definition can be changed from 'dict' to 'table' now, and the plugin required just a little editing then.)