conky and mplayer??

derverstand · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 511 Location: /dev/null

Hi,

Is it possible to use mplayer as media-player with conky? There seems to be no simple solution to display the actual playing songname etc.

Best regards!

synss · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:00 am Post subject:

from http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html it seems like mplayer is unsupported. So short answer is : no simple solution. However, you can utilize exec and friends to retrieve the info you want via grep, sed, awk, cut and so on... or a perl wrapper...

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