SMPlayer Support Forum

Is this a normal behavior for SMPlayer in Linux? when I double click on a video file, a notification comes up saying that SMP is ready, but it did not come into focus and did not play the video, I have to do it manually. Is it possible to configure it to come into focus and star to play video after double clicking on the video/music file? I tried to look into Options > Preferences, but couldn't find any setting for it.

That's weird, there must be something wrong in the configuration of your system. I think you should look at the configuration (file associations) of your file manager.

My apologies, I thought it's working, actually it's partially working, if I have SMP already opened, then click on a media file, I'll get a notification saying that SMP is ready, but it does not come into focus or start playing, but if I close it and click on a media file, then SMP opens up and starts playing the media file, is this supposed to work this way?

Hi rvm, this problem can be solved using an extension from Ubuntu, please here [url]“https://askubuntu.com/questions/1035369/files-foldername-is-ready-prompt-on-ubuntu-18-04[/url] for details.