Displaying the now playing track from Spotify in Conky
The big problem is how to get the information, using xwininfo it is possible to get the information from the window title.
e.g.
xwininfo -root -children | grep spotify
will give an output string along the lines of
0x3200005 "Spotify - Manowar - Kings Of Metal": ("spotify.exe" "Wine") 1550x800+0+0 +0+0
the next issue is to extract the artist and song from the string, I have two approaches to this...
One
xwininfo -root -children | grep spotify | cut -d\" -f2 | cut -c 10-
Two
xwininfo -root -children | grep spotify | perl -lne 'print $1 if /Spotify\ \-\ (.*)":/;'
(Gratitude goes to dbbolton for help with the pattern matching)
both of which will output a string along the lines of
Manowar - Kings Of Metal
now all one has to do is use Conkys execi command to execute the code :-D
e.g.
xwininfo -root -children | grep spotify
will give an output string along the lines of
0x3200005 "Spotify - Manowar - Kings Of Metal": ("spotify.exe" "Wine") 1550x800+0+0 +0+0
the next issue is to extract the artist and song from the string, I have two approaches to this...
One
xwininfo -root -children | grep spotify | cut -d\" -f2 | cut -c 10-
Two
xwininfo -root -children | grep spotify | perl -lne 'print $1 if /Spotify\ \-\ (.*)":/;'
(Gratitude goes to dbbolton for help with the pattern matching)
both of which will output a string along the lines of
Manowar - Kings Of Metal
now all one has to do is use Conkys execi command to execute the code :-D