diff -Nurb --strip-trailing-cr audacious-plugins-3.4-beta2-orig/src/gnomeshortcuts/gnomeshortcuts.c audacious-plugins-3.4-beta2/src/gnomeshortcuts/gnomeshortcuts.c
--- audacious-plugins-3.4-beta2-orig/src/gnomeshortcuts/gnomeshortcuts.c	2013-06-01 04:30:16.000000000 +0200
+++ audacious-plugins-3.4-beta2/src/gnomeshortcuts/gnomeshortcuts.c	2013-06-12 09:31:10.865476168 +0200
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 AUD_GENERAL_PLUGIN
 (
     .name = N_("Gnome Shortcuts"),
+    .enabled_by_default = TRUE,
     .domain = PACKAGE,
     .about_text = about,
     .init = init,
@@ -230,6 +231,14 @@
         g_warning ("Error connecting to DBus: %s", error->message);
         g_error_free (error);
     } else {
+        if ( !dbus_bus_name_has_owner(dbus_g_connection_get_connection(bus),
+                                      "org.gnome.SettingsDaemon", &error) ) {
+            if (error) {
+                g_warning(error->message);
+                g_error_free(error);
+            }
+            return;
+        }
         media_player_keys_proxy = dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name (bus,
          "org.gnome.SettingsDaemon",
          "/org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys",