Shell Programming and Scripting

I am a linux user (PcLinuxOs desktop 64bit kde5). I am looking for a script (bash or python) to autopause clementine (a music player) on skype call. VLC works: autopause on skype call and at the end resume). Clementine automute, but not autopause, on skype call.
I am absolute beginner with the scripts, so I need your help.
Bash comman to pause clementine is "clementine --pause", but witch command for "if" or "when" or "while"?

Thank you
Duns

I believe that under Skype settings -> Notifications you can execute a script on a number of events, why not create a script to do clementine --pause under the incoming call Notification:

Thank you very much

Your help solved the bulk of the problem, but remain some things to perfect, i.e. how don't start clementine if before the skype call was stopped. How i.e. resume only if paused and not if stopped.
Now I put this script after the call:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
if pgrep -x "clementine" > /dev/null
then
    clementine --play
fi

Could you help me (another bash script)?
Tried with fg, but don't works.

In what way does it not work? What happens? What do you want to happen? What were you expecting fg to do? I don't understand its use here.

Clementine paused is not seen as a job suspended, so I get a error message:

Code:

$ fg %clementine
bash: fg: %clementine: no such job

.
I want resume music paused, if paused and do nothing if stopped.

Oh, you want it to do nothing if the music is stopped. OK. You'll need to ask clementine whether it's paused or not somehow. That's not something pgrep or fg can tell you, since clementine isn't actually "stopped" in a program sense, just a "not playing" sense.

Does clementine show any status information? I don't have any way to test it on this end.