[?] [3067] [Linux] Media keys sometimes stop working for AIMP

[Lutalli]

Using CachyOS with KDE Plasma. Since some update of AIMP (I don't remember which exactly), the media keys (previous song, next song, play/pause) sometimes stop working for AIMP. "Sometimes" as this happens randomly and I haven't found a way to reproduce it yet. Restarting the program or restarting the computer might fix it, but not always.

When this is happening, it looks like AIMP is still responding to the input in some way - The highlight of the currently playing song blinks when I press a media key, but it just won't change to another song or play/pause.

[Artem]

What app version?

[Lutalli]

v6.00.3067 beta 3 (03.06.2026)

As far as I remember, the bug also appeared in previous few updates.

[Artem]

Any entries in the console in this case? What is your desktop session, X11 or Wayland?

[Lutalli]

Using X11. I ran AIMP in the terminal and it doesn't look like there is anything interesting in the output. If I try to press media keys when it's buggy, there is also no new message (at all) in the terminal.

I attached the initial output after launching AIMP.

The issue occurs on different skins.