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Okay, so if you keep up with my screenshots, you'll know by now that I've officially been converted to using PekWM as my window manager for Arch Linux. Now, I just switched from OpenBox, and users of OB will note that one of it's coolest features is pipe menus. Well, since switching to PekWM, I've missed my custom pipe menus, so I decided to port some of my old ones to PekWM! This is one of those.

This particular python script will dynamically update a submenu in your PekWM root menu (or the one that comes up when you right click on the desktop) to show various things about MPD and let you control via the menu. The screenshot above pretty much covers everything it can do.

There are instructions on use inside the file, but why not put some here as well? To use, click the "Download" link and save the file as "mpd.py" in the folder ~/.pekwm/scripts/, which is a hidden folder in your /home/YOURUSERNAME/ directory and make it executable by doing "chmod +x ~/.pekwm/scripts/mpd.py" in a terminal. Then, open the file ~/.pekwm/menu and add the following somewhere under "Root Menu" where you want it to appear:

Submenu = "MPD" {
Entry { Actions = "Dynamic /home/YOURUSERNAME/.pekwm/scripts/mpd.py" }
}

Replacing YOURUSERNAME with your actual username in /home.

Have fun!
$ sh /usr/bin/disclaimer
Python © Python Software Foundation
Conky released under GPL

Description

[ anonymouslink@deviantART.com ]

$ cat /etc/description
Okay, so if you keep up with my screenshots, you'll know by now that I've officially been converted to using PekWM as my window manager for Arch Linux. Now, I just switched from OpenBox, and users of OB will note that one of it's coolest features is pipe menus. Well, since switching to PekWM, I've missed my custom pipe menus, so I decided to port some of my old ones to PekWM! This is one of those.

This particular python script will dynamically update a submenu in your PekWM root menu (or the one that comes up when you right click on the desktop) to show various things about MPD and let you control via the menu. The screenshot above pretty much covers everything it can do.

There are instructions on use inside the file, but why not put some here as well? To use, click the "Download" link and save the file as "mpd.py" in the folder ~/.pekwm/scripts/, which is a hidden folder in your /home/YOURUSERNAME/ directory and make it executable by doing "chmod +x ~/.pekwm/scripts/mpd.py" in a terminal. Then, open the file ~/.pekwm/menu and add the following somewhere under "Root Menu" where you want it to appear:

Submenu = "MPD" {
Entry { Actions = "Dynamic /home/YOURUSERNAME/.pekwm/scripts/mpd.py" }
}

Replacing YOURUSERNAME with your actual username in /home.

Have fun!
$ sh /usr/bin/disclaimer
Python © Python Software Foundation
Conky released under GPL