Best Totem Movie Player Tweaks

Totem (http://projects.gnome.org/totem/) is a media player for GNOME.It is the default player in Ubuntu and Fedora like leading Linux distros.These are five easy tweaks for Totem.

1. Play Totem in System tray

>install AllTray (http://alltray.sourceforge.net/)
>Now using Applications>Accessories>AllTray you can dock any applications to System tray.
>In this case open a Totem window and dock it.
>Here advantage is that even if you close docked window,it will work in tray.

2. Start Totem in system tray when startup

>I assume you already installed AllTray
>open system>preferences>sessions
>In "Startup Programs" tab click Add button
>Command is alltray totem.Fill up Name and Comment as you like.



More: You can replace any programs with totem if you want.

3. Enqueue songs in Totem

>install nautilus-actions package (http://packages.ubuntu.com/nautilus-actions)
>open it system>preferences>Nautilus Actions Configurations

>>Click Add, now fill the fields like this

Label: your choice
Tooltip: your choice
Icon: your choice
Path: totem
Parameters: --enqueue %M

In Conditions tab, you can specify audio,video file types so that option will appear whenever you select these files only.
See images below.




4. Make an panel-applet-like controls for Totem

>My 'output' look like this.

I can control totem with these four buttons.Currently there is only a music applet for controlling Quod libet,Rhythmbox etc players but not Totem.That is why I did this.

>save these images first (or you can create your own) in your home folder.



>You need to create four custom items to add into panel.Right click a panel >Add to panel.. and select "Custom Application Launcher"

>You can put Name & Comment as you like.
Command of four applets was this for mine.

totem --next

totem --previous

totem --seek-fwd

totem --seek-bwd

I created four seperate launchers.

Note: you can check for other options for Totem by opening Terminal and passing commands
"man totem" or "totem --help".

>Now Click on the icon (see above image) and select your own icon or one I provided
>Arrange these four applets wherever you want in panels.
Drawback:
May not be perfect looking!:)
You cannot save this applet so if you delete it make it again.(Actually you can!Make four launchers in menu list with these commands and you can add these to panel anytime.BTW what is not possible in GNU/Linux!!)

5. Let Totem play your favorite song or playlist on system startup!

>its pretty easy.Change the Command in second tweak above to:

alltray totem /home/userendblog/Music/samplesong.mp3

or

alltray totem /home/userendblog/Music/sampleplaylist.pls

Path to file depends upon you.
>Remember to give files which is in auto-mounting partitions like home folder.