If Quod Libet says "Error grabbing key 172, 0x853bc00" it means that something else is intercepting the key. Close all applications potentially using the multimedia keys, start Quod Libet at a terminal (*after* closing everything), then try. If you still see that message at a terminal, it means something - probably some GNOME core component - is still grabbing the key. If that's the case, this a "bug" in GNOME - I'm sure whoever made the actual change will claim it was a feature.
The Debian people did not see D-Bus as causing the breaking, towolf did. Thet Debian bug report was simply about Quod Libet using a deprecated D-Bus API and had nothing to do with multimedia keys. -- Feisty’s Quod Libet ignores keyboard shortcuts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43464 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs