I was having some issues with conky when trying to display MPD’s current song information so I decided to create a simple replacement.
I looked into implementing it in python
however i wanted to play with c/autotools and the current packages for xcb (xpyb (deprecated i think) or xcffib) does not seem mature enough and undocumented (just like xcb).
in order to build from source, you will need the following libraries (will be checked by autoconf):
- pango
- xcb
- cairo
- libmpdclient
- Font: awesome (not checked! you’ll notice if you dontr have it)
aclocal ; autoheader; automake --add-missing; autoconf
./configure
make
a sample configuration file is given in the etc folder. it will only be read if copied to ~/.config/mpd_info
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