Customizing SMPlayer toolbars

Many linux- and windows-users use SMPlayer to watch videos - an excellent Qt4-frontend for the most powerful video player from the Linux world - MPlayer.



But not everyone knows that the toolbar in SMPlayer can be customized to your liking, by adding buttons of the most frequently used functions to them, and, conversely, by removing unnecessary ones.



This possibility has been around for quite a long time; besides, the author promises to make the ability to customize toolbars through SMPlayer graphic settings in future releases, but for now you need to edit the configuration file.

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So, open in your favorite text editor smplayer.ini and look for the [default_gui] section.

actions \ toolbar1 describes the main toolbar,

actions \ controlwidget - Playback Panel,

actions \ controlwidget_mini - playback panel with small window sizes,

actions \ floating_control - the panel appears in full screen mode when the mouse is led to the bottom of the screen.



For lovers of mini-interface (you can switch in the settings) there is a similar section [mini_gui]



Just look at these lines, and everything becomes clear. I will cite only the names of the menu items, the buttons of which can be put on the main panel (for which they are needed, it is clear from their names themselves).

angles_menu aspect_menu audiochannels_menu audiofilter_menu audiotrack_menu chapters_menu compact deinterlace_menu forward1 forward2 forward3 forwardbutton_action fullscreen mute ontop_menu open_dvd

open_file open_url osd_menu panscan_menu pause_and_frame_step play play_next play_or_pause play_prev radio_menu rewind1 rewind2 rewind3 rewindbutton_action rotate_menu screen_menu

screenshot show_file_properties show_playlist show_preferences speed_menu stereomode_menu stop subtitlestrack_menu timelabel_action timeslider_action titles_menu tv_menu videofilter_menu videosize_menu videotrack_menu volumeslider_action

Separator is used to separate groups of buttons.



Well, a couple of screenshots in the end.



This is what the default SMPlayer looks like when it is first launched:







And so I set it up for myself:







By the way, yes, the latest version has support for SMPlayer TV (more precisely, support mplayer commands for working with TV), but the tv_menu and radio_menu buttons can be useful not only to owners of TV and dvb tuners. They can be successfully used as, for example, bookmarks for favorite radio stations on the Internet.