from https://github.com/gamehelp16/now-clocking made by my compatriot.
Now Playing is a Conky widget which shows a Monstercat style Now Playing when music is played via Spotify or cmus, or a clock when no music is playing.
Actually I commented out the clock, because I have a lot of clocks on my desktop thanks conky. Changed the conky code to the modern style, because the whole code was written for older version of conky. I simplified it a little bit, instead of copying everything to two different directories, I prefer to keep everything in one place.
It is working in Elementary OS so it should work also in Ubuntu, or Debian.
For Arch separate branch is here: https://github.com/sysadmin-info/now-clocking/tree/now-clocking-arch
Other conkies I modified will be soon also accessible. If you are very impatient, you can follow my tutorial at YouTube: https://youtu.be/1uHQ1493c04
Imgur album containing full res images can be found here and here.
Please keep in mind that this widget was originally created for personal use only (and also I'm still new to this ricing thing) so the script used might be a little bit messy and inefficient. The Conky widget is even based on Helix Conky which has been heavily modified to make it look like how I want to.
- Install the fonts "Gotham Bold", "Gotham Book", and "Montserrat Light".
- Copy all files into
~/.conky/now-playingdirectory. If it is not there just create it, please. - Put the Conky widget into your desktop.
- You might want to adjust the positioning of the widget since as said above, this widget is originally created for personal use only so I just made it specifically for my screen size, etc.
- Copy conky-delay.sh to your home directory and add it to autostart. Hope you know how to do this step.
Why are there 2 Conky widgets?
Conky has this weird transparency issue where the album art becomes semi-transparent when the widget background is set to transparent. The album art only becomes opaque when the widget background is opaque (which of course looks really bad), so I figured out that using 2 widgets (one for the text, and another for the artwork) can solve the problem.
Why separate the files used by each music player?
I have tried merging cmusart and spotifyart into one file, I have also tried using only one file for the artwork and the text file, but this causes a bug where the artwork always re-downloads itself every time. So I think it's better to just use 2 files (once again this was initially created for personal use only).