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Spotify widget

This widget displays currently playing song on Spotify for Linux client: and consists of two parts:

• status icon which shows if music is currently playing
• artist and name of the current song playing

Controls

• left click - play/pause
• scroll up - play next song
• scroll down - play previous song

Dependencies

Note that widget uses the Arc icon theme, so it should be installed first under /usr/share/icons/Arc/ folder.

Also this widget uses the output of the spotify_stat script which could be found in the widget folder.

Installation

First you need to have spotify CLI installed. Here is how you can do it (except widget part): pavelmakhov.com/2016/02/awesome-wm-spotify

To use this widget put spotify.lua under ~/.config/awesome/ and add it in rc.lua:

require("spotify")
...
s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
	{ -- Right widgets
    	layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
		...
        spotify_widget,
		...      

Troubleshooting

Status icon (play/pause) is not shown:

• make spotify_stat script executable (by sudo chmod +x spotify_stat) and run it in terminal, output should be either RUNNING or CORKED;
• the spotify_stat script is called by spotify.lua so make sure that get_spotify_status_cmd in spotify.lua contains the right path to the script;
• create an issue :octocat:.