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emacsomancer

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Registered: 2014-09-20

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[Solved] Awesome DE - adding a widget for DeadBeef currently playing

Running on Awesome 3.5, how can I get a widget for displaying the currently playing Deadbeef track?

I found this: http://makandracards.com/makandra/16113 … ow-manager  - but it seems to be set up for an earlier version of Awesome.

Last edited by emacsomancer (2014-12-15 15:22:57)

radc

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Registered: 2013-03-02

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Awesome DE - adding a widget for DeadBeef currently playing

I got one.

deadbeef = wibox.widget.textbox()
deadbeef:set_align("right")
function deadbeef_s(widget)
     local status = io.popen('deadbeef --nowplaying "%a - %t"'):read("*all")
     local color = "#FFFFFF"
     deadbeef:set_markup("<span color=\"" .. color .. "\">" .. status .. "</span>")
end
deadbeef_s(deadbeef)
mytimer = timer({ timeout = 3 })
mytimer:connect_signal("timeout", function () deadbeef_s(deadbeef) end)
mytimer:start()

And of course, add this line.
   

 right_layout:add(deadbeef)

emacsomancer

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Registered: 2014-09-20

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Re: [Solved] Awesome DE - adding a widget for DeadBeef currently playing

Crashes if the song title continues an "&"....

radc

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Registered: 2013-03-02

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Re: [Solved] Awesome DE - adding a widget for DeadBeef currently playing

Change the line:

deadbeef:set_markup("<span color=\"" .. color .. "\">" .. status .. "</span>")

to

deadbeef:set_text(status)

Edit :
and remove this line, it not in use anymore.

local color = "#FFFFFF"

Last edited by radc (2014-09-28 01:40:21)

emacsomancer

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Re: [Solved] Awesome DE - adding a widget for DeadBeef currently playing

Thanks!  That seems to work.