| +-------+ |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
+You need a file like this
+
+ (front|cover|art|Folder|folder)\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$
+
+in the album folder in order to show album art in the notification too.
+
### input table
Variable | Meaning | Type | Default
`host` | MPD server | string | "127.0.0.1"
`port` | MPD port | string | "6600"
`music_dir` | Music directory | string | "~/Music"
+`cover_size` | Album art notification size | int | 100
`settings` | User settings | function | empty function
`settings` can use `mpd_now` table, which contains the following string values:
- album
- date
-and can modify `notification_preset` table, which will be the preset for the naughty notifications. Check [here](http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/modules/naughty.html#notify) for the list of variables it can contain. Default definition:
+and can modify `mpd_notification_preset` table, which will be the preset for the naughty notifications. Check [here](http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/modules/naughty.html#notify) for the list of variables it can contain. Default definition:
- notification _preset = {
+ mpd_notification _preset = {
title = "Now playing",
- text = mpd_now.artist .. " (" ..
- mpd_now.album .. ") - " ..
- mpd_now.date .. "\n" ..
- mpd_now.title,
- fg = beautiful.fg_normal or "#FFFFFF",
- bg = beautiful.bg_normal or "#000000",
- timeout = 6
+ timeout = 6,
+ text = string.format("%s (%s) - %s\n%s", mpd_now.artist,
+ mpd_now.album, mpd_now.date, mpd_now.title)
}
### output table
Variable | Meaning | Type
--- | --- | ---
`widget` | The textbox | `wibox.widget.textbox`
-`notify` | The notification | function
+`update` | The notification | function
You can control the widget with key bindings like these:
awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Up",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc toggle || ncmpcpp toggle || ncmpc toggle || pms toggle")
- mpdwidget.notify()
+ mpdwidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Down",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc stop || ncmpcpp stop || ncmpc stop || pms stop")
- mpdwidget.notify()
+ mpdwidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Left",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc prev || ncmpcpp prev || ncmpc prev || pms prev")
- mpdwidget.notify()
+ mpdwidget.update()
end),
awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Right",
function ()
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc next || ncmpcpp next || ncmpc next || pms next")
- mpdwidget.notify()
+ mpdwidget.update()
end),
where `altkey = "Mod1"`.
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