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tmux-plugin-playerctl
A tmux plugin for using playerctl to display MPRIS meta-data about the music currently playing.
Pre-requisites
Make sure you have playerctl & bash installed.
# If you're in Arch
sudo pacman -S playerctl
See playerctl's instructions to get more details about installing it in other OS.
Installation
Installation with Tmux Plugin Manager (recommended)
Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf
:
set -g @plugin 'richin13/tmux-plugin-playerctl'
Hit prefix + I
to fetch the plugin and source it.
If format strings are added to status-right
, they should now be visible.
Manual installation
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/richin13/tmux-plugin-playerctl ~/path/to/local/repo
Add the following line to your .tmux.conf
:
run-shell ~/path/to/local/repo/playerctl.tmux
Usage
The currently available options are:
#{playerctl_artist}
: Display the song's artist information#{playerctl_title}
: Display the song's title information#{playerctl_album}
: Display the song's album information#{playerctl_full}
: Display the song info in the format [Artist] - [Title]#{playerctl_short}
: Display the song info in the format [Artist] - [Title] but trimmed to a max number of characters (default: 30)
Just add the desired option to your .tmux.conf
like this:
set -g status-right "#{playerctl_full}"
Settings
Available settings for playerctl_short
(shown values are the defaults):
#: Number of characters to show
set -g @short_length "30"
#: Character(s) to append at the end of the trimmed song name
set -g @short_append_chars "..."
License
See LICENSE