14Oct/09Off
Now Playing Notification using ncmpcpp, libnotify and Gnome
I missed the functionality of a Mac OS X application and through the a mix of LinuxJournal's tip for using at with libnotify, some tinkering and assignment to <Mod4+F5>, ncmpcpp and this code:
notify-send -i audio-x-generic "Now Playing" "$(ncmpcpp --now-playing '?? %t ??^M^M?? %a ??^M^M ?? %b ??')"
EDIT: Crikey! The above code was pasted from vim in a terminal, so the ^M's are actually the following keystrokes: <ctrl-v><ctrl-m>. It's to get the linebreak needed to separate the track, artist and album so nicely.
I get the following via libnotify when I press the "Windows" key and F5:
Soon, I'm going to learn how to modify libnotify themes and make a better one, but for now this will suit me just fine.
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