control remote MPD using Lain widget about awesome-copycats

[lcpz]

You're not supposed to modify mpd.lua, but rather write a Lain MPD widget in theme.lua. Example:

theme.mpd = lain.widget.mpd {
    host = "example.com",
    port = "6600",
    music_dir = "path/to/your/music/directory",
    settings = function()
        widget:set_markup(mpd_now.artist .. " " .. mpd_now.title)
    end
}

Reference: Lain MPD widget documentation.

[zenodotus280]

Thank you! I thought I had tried that already but I didn't put the host, port, and music directory high enough in the widget. The music dir wasn't needed in the end as MPD must handle that remotely and the default is also port 6600 so I could have omitted that too.

For anyone else wanting confirmation on what's needed (the first part is so I can 'super+left-click' to open a TUI music controller):

-- MPD
local mpc_remote = " -h moode.home.arpa -p 6600"
local musicplr = awful.util.terminal .. " -e ncmpcpp" .. mpc_remote
local mpdicon = wibox.widget.imagebox(theme.widget_music)

[...]

theme.mpd = lain.widget.mpd({
    host = "moode.home.arpa",
    port = "6600",
    settings = function()
    
[...]