gamehelp16/now-clocking

A conky widget that shows now playing information when music is playing or a clock when music is not playing.

now-clocking's Issues

unmaintained?

hey! just wanted to say i LOVE your project, been using it for years. however, over time, conky config formats and options and such have changed, various DE/WM/compositor setups have weirdness, and so this script no longer works quite right out of the box.

I've got my own fork over at Rayzr522/now-clocking where I've cleaned it up and it basically just works out of the box now on any DE/WM/compositor combo (from my testing at least), but I was wondering if you plan on maintaining this upstream repo at all anymore?

would love to see this project come back to life. this is such a nice touch to add to any Linux setup, and I've got it installed on all my machines :)

Error in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gamehelp16/now-clocking/master/np/np

Hi here there is a mistake or error:

${exec echo dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player' string:'Metadata'|egrep -A 2 "artist"|egrep -v "artist"|egrep -v "array"|cut -b 27-|cut -d '"' -f 1|egrep -v ^$}

should be

${exec dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player' string:'Metadata'|egrep -A 2 "artist"|egrep -v "artist"|egrep -v "array"|cut -b 27-|cut -d '"' -f 1|egrep -v ^$}

I removed echo and

identical this:

${exec echo dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player' string:'Metadata'|egrep -A 1 "title"|egrep -v "title"|cut -b 44-|cut -d '"' -f 1|egrep -v ^$}

change to this"

${exec dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player' string:'Metadata'|egrep -A 1 "title"|egrep -v "title"|cut -b 44-|cut -d '"' -f 1|egrep -v ^$}

But the artist is not displaying, so I removed
egrep -v "array"

And now it is displaying, however a little bit nonsense... See the image. I need to cut the array [
Any idea how to correct the code?

Artist art is just a black box

Error displaying date 6

High CPU Usage

When any of the scripts were running, they made my PC really laggy.

Changing "update_interval" from 0.01 to 1 lowered the overall consumption to almost nothing and kept the same performance.

Spotify art not showing up

issue with sh

If anyone have issue with sh, and the cover is not displaying, open these files:
spotifyart
cmusart
and change #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash
additionally in spotifyart change url=${test/https://open.spotify.com/http://i.scdn.co} to
url=${test/https://open.spotify.com/https://i.scdn.co}

(added https instead of http)

Then open
np
npart
and change exec sh to exec bash