Re: [xmonad] Proposal: Advanced Scratchpad-Features

* Adrien Barilly [2008-02-28 19:34:47+0100]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:08:38PM +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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* Andrew Sackville-West [2008-02-28 06:49:00-0800]

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Dominik Bruhn wrote: This is orthagonal to your original question, but as a suggestion for music players and xmonad, I use mpd and have key bindings that control it through mpc. I use one key for pause and another for volume control. Finally I have included pertinent parts of the mpc output in my xmobar. It's all pretty simple and make a very nice simple music setup.

Agree :)

Also I've written a small extension for prompting song name, but I was going to push it after xmonad get locale support.

However, if you need it and don't deal with non-Latin song names, I can push it earlier...

I made a little script long time ago to play a song by inputting part of its name: mpc play `mpc playlist | grep -i $1 | tr -d \# | head -n 1 | awk -F\) '{print $1}'`

Might find it useful as well..

Haha. I have something very similar in spirit in my shell. However, this requires searching some free terminal (or opening a new one). Plus typing your command alias (I call it 'play'). Prompt extension makes things easier. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)