aside 30 May

Conky with XMMS2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

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Default Conky in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) does not come with xmms2 support built in. Since I use xmms2 extensively, building conky from source was the only option. Here’s how I did it:

That should install Conky with xmms2 support in /opt/conky. And here’s the obligatory screen shot:

XMMS2 music display with Conky - Click for full size

XMMS2 music display with Conky

Just for reference, here’s the conkyrc I use for music:

Happy listening!

  • Zac

    Hey, I was wondering, if I already installed conky (sudo apt-get install conky) how should I go about building conky to support xmms2 ? :) Thanks!

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/asolkar Mahesh Asolkar

      Yes. I believe that the default conky installed via Ubuntu repositories does not have XMMS2 support built in. You can tell if you run the command 'conky -v' in Terminal. If you see XMMS2 under 'Music detection' section conky supports XMMS2. If it does not, you will have top build it with the '–enable-xmms2' option as discussed in the post.