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Rhythmbox integration with Awesome WM |
2015-08-09 09:23:45 -0700 |
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Rhythmbox provides tool to control running instance from terminal, which is very good feature. With it's help it is very easy to create a widget which displays currently playing song. Also here I'm showing how to add some shortcuts to control music. |
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To work with rhythmbox from terminal there is really nice tool called rhythmbox-client which allows controlling already running instance of Rhythmbox. To see all supported features simply run rhythmbox-client -help.
Widget shows name and artist of currently playing song. Basically it runs theis command: rhythmbox-client --no-start --print-playing. Looks like this: .
To create such widget create file rhythmbox.lua with following content:
{% highlight lua %} local io = { popen = io.popen } local setmetatable = setmetatable local string = { gmatch = string.gmatch } local helpers = require("vicious.helpers")
module("vicious.widgets.rhythmbox")
local function worker(format, warg) local info = { ["{state}"] = "nil" }
local f = io.popen("rhythmbox-client --no-start --print-playing")
info["{state}"] = f:read("*line")
f:close()
return info
end
setmetatable(M, { __call = function(, ...) return worker(...) end }) {% endhighlight lua %}
In rc.lua add vicious and rhythmbox files, create widget and add it to wibox:
{% highlight lua %} require("rhythmbox") require("vicious")
...
rhythmboxwidget = wibox.widget.textbox() vicious.register( rhythmboxwidget, vicious.widgets.rhythmbox, function (widget, args) if args["{state}"] == nil then return "Now Playing: Not loaded" elseif args["{state}"] == "Not playing" then return "Paused" else return args["{state}"] end end, 4) {% endhighlight lua %}
For the shortcuts most useful would be to play next/previous song and play/pause action. I would like to use Mod4+,(.) to switch songs and Mod4+/ to play/pause.
You can try these commands from terminal to perform those actions:
{% highlight bash %} rhythmbox-client --no-start --play-pause rhythmbox-client --no-start --next rhythmbox-client --no-start --previous {% endhighlight bash %}
And in rc.lua with keybindings:
{% highlight lua %} awful.key({ modkey, }, "/", function () awful.util.spawn("rhythmbox-client --no-start --play-pause", false) end), awful.key({ modkey, }, ",", function () awful.util.spawn("rhythmbox-client --no-start --next", false) end), awful.key({ modkey, }, ".", function () awful.util.spawn("rhythmbox-client --no-start --previous", false) end) {% endhighlight lua %}