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--- third_party_apps:conky [2007/08/25 18:29] – astier
+++ third_party_apps:conky [2022/05/23 01:30] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 This How-To has been conceived after the experiments on Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn - 7.04), a debian-based distribution, and by Quentin Sculo on a Mandriva 2007.
 ======What is conky ?======
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 Conky can also display music playing information from a few music players / jukebox like bmp, audacious, mpd.
-Quentin Sculo has developed a patch for conky (version 4 is available [[http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/tmp/conky_gmb.patch4.gz|here]]) to display the gmusicbrowser playing information into conky.
-After downloading the patch, create the conkypatch directory into your /home :
-<code>mkdir conkypatch</code>
-and move the patch you have just downloaded into it :
-<code> mv downloaddirectory/conky_gmb.patch4.gz conkypatch</code>
-to make the future operations easier.
+======Without the patch======
+loomsen has posted on the ubuntu forum a method to display the info in conky without patching it.
+see [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5967407#post5967407|this post]]
+The advantage of this method is that it works with the current conky versions (1.6 and future versions)
+The disadvantage is that it needs to run a small program for each update, so it's a bit less cpu-friendly.
+======With the patch======
+Quentin Sculo has developed a patch for conky (version for conky-1.5.1 is available [[http://gmusicbrowser.org/files/conky_gmb.patch5_1.5.1_new.gz|here]]) to display the gmusicbrowser playing information into conky.
-======Download and patch conky======
+//Sadly, this patch requires a lot of modification for using it with conky version 1.6 and higher. So currently you'll have to use the method above without the patch.//
-For this, go to the conky project homepage on sourceforge.net (http://conky.sourceforge.net/) and download [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143975|conky-1.4.5 sources]] in the .tar.bz2 format (for example, directly [[http://downloads.sourceforge.net/conky/conky-1.4.5.tar.bz2?modtime=1165957695&big_mirror=0|here]]).
+=====Download and patch conky=====
-Move the tar archive into the conkypatch directory : <code>mv downloaddirectory/conky-1.4.5.tar.bz2 conkypatch</code>
+After downloading the patch, create the conkypatch directory into your /home :
+<code>mkdir conkypatch</code>
+and move the patch you have just downloaded into it :
+<code> mv downloaddirectory/conky-1.5.1_gmb.patch.gz conkypatch</code>
+to make the future operations easier.
+For this, go to the conky project homepage on sourceforge.net (http://conky.sourceforge.net/) and download [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143975&package_id=158249|conky-1.5.1 sources]] in the .tar.bz2 format .
+Move the tar archive into the conkypatch directory : <code>mv downloaddirectory/conky-1.5.1.tar.bz2 conkypatch</code>
 Move into the conkypatch directory :
 <code>cd conkypatch</code>
-Untar the conky-1.4.5.tar.bz2 archive :
+Untar the conky-1.5.1.tar.bz2 archive :
-<code>tar xjfv conky-1.4.5.tar.bz2</code>
+<code>tar xjfv conky-1.5.1.tar.bz2</code>
-Go into the conky-1.4.5 directory (created with the untar) : <code>cd conky-1.4.5</code>
+Go into the conky-1.5.1 directory (created with the untar) : <code>cd conky-1.5.1</code>
 Apply the patch :
-<code>zcat ../conky_gmb.patch4.gz |patch -p1</code>
+<code>zcat ../conky_gmb.patch5_1.5.1_new.gz |patch -p1</code>
-If you want the latest conky version (1.4.6) you have to patch conky with the patch available here : [[http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/tmp/conky-1.4.6_gmb.patch.gz]].
-The way to patch conky is the same that we describe before, but you have to be careful to the version numerotation.
-======Compile conky======
+=====Compile conky=====
 First, check you have these packages installed on your system : gcc, make, automake1.9, autoconf, build-essential, checkinstall :
 <code>sudo aptitude install gcc automake1.9 autoconf build-essential checkinstall</code>
-Then in the /home/login/conkypatch/conky-1.4.5 directory (where you certainly are), do : <code>./autogen</code>.
+Then in the /home/login/conkypatch/conky-1.5.1 directory (where you certainly are), do : <code>./autogen</code>.
 The terminal is quite informative ; if there are some errors or warnings, the messages it sends enable you to install the right packages. Personally, on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I had a conflict with several "automake" versions and I had to uninstall these packages : automake, automake1.4, automake1.7 et automake1.8 and only have automake1.9 installed.
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-======Configure conky=====
+=====Configure conky====
 For those who have just discovered conky, you must know that configuring conky means editing the conky configuration file which is a hidden file in your /home ; to edit that file, in a terminal, do : <code>gedit /home/login/.conkyrc</code> replacing "login" by your own login and "gedit" by the command of the text editor of your choice.
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 The patch we have just applied enables these next variables : $gmb_artist, $gmb_album, $gmb_bar, $gmb_elapsed, $gmb_length, $gmb_percent, $gmb_title, $gmb_track.
-Here is an example of conky configuration and the corresponding capture : {{gallery>translations:fr:applications_tierces}}
+Here is an example of conky configuration and the corresponding capture (under Ubuntu Gutsy) : {{gallery>translations:fr:applications_tierces}}
 <code>
 # set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
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 ${color #FFFB00}${gmb_elapsed}${color #DBAA82}/${gmb_length}  ${color #344299}${gmb_bar}${color #DBAA82}
 </code>
+You can also have something like that :
+<code>${color #FF000C}${font Lexia:size=10}Musique :${font Sans:size=8.5}${color0}
+${if_existing /home/bbrice/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.fifo}${gmb_title}
+${gmb_artist}
+${gmb_album}
+${color #002939}${gmb_bar 18}${color0}
+$alignc${voffset -21}${gmb_elapsed}/${gmb_length}$endif${if_empty $mpd_smart}$else${mpd_title}
+${mpd_artist}
+${mpd_album}
+${color #002939}${mpd_bar 18}${color0}
+$alignc${voffset -21}${mpd_elapsed}/${mpd_length}$endif
+</code>
+but in this case, you have to be careful to the location of the gmusicbrowser.fifo on your computer. In Ubuntu (Gutsy) you find this file here : ~/.gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.fifo but in Debian Lenny, this file is "hidden" here : ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.fifo.
 For some other examples and tips and tricks you can visit [[http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=99471|this page]] on the [[http://www.ubuntu-fr.org/|Ubuntu-fr]] forum.