


The past has seen me blow the dust of a ton of old Conky ‘now playing’ scripts/widgets from GitHub, DeviantArt, GNOME Look, and anywhere else I could rummage (including in a few long-forgotten Dropbox accounts). On vanilla Ubuntu things are less bountiful. Users of KDE Plasma have lots of choices (lucky things) in this department with Plasmoids and the like. I like making my desktop look pretty, and now playing widgets are good way to help me do that. Which is to say I WANT to show my now playing song on my desktop. Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.\nExec=bash /usr/bin/spotifywebplayer/spotifywebplayer\nPath=/usr/bin/spotifywebplayer\nIcon=spotify-web-player\nCategories=GNOME GTK AudioVideo Audio Player \nActions=PlayPause Next Previous \nType=Application\nTerminal=false\n\nName=Play/Pause\nExec=dbus-send -print-reply -reply-timeout=2500 -session -dest= /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 .PlayPause\n\nName=Next\nExec=dbus-send -print-reply -session -dest= /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 .Next\n\nName=Previous\nExec=dbus-send -print-reply -session -dest= /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 .A few of you will be wondering why I want to see whatever track I’m playing on my desktop, and there’s not really a good answer. Sudo cp /usr/bin/spotifywebplayer/spotify-large-transparent.png /usr/share/pixmaps/spotify-web-player.png & sudo echo "\nVersion=0.9.4\nName=Spotify Web Player\nComment=Music for every moment. get_prerequisites.shįinally run the command given below to create application icon & application launcher: Sudo mkdir -p /usr/bin/spotifywebplayer/lib/electron & sudo unzip master.zip /usr/bin/spotifywebplayerĬd /usr/bin/spotifywebplayer &. Next run the following commands to download the archive from GitHub and extract Spotify Web Player: Sudo apt-get install libappindicator-1 libnotify4 How to install Spotify Web Player for Linuxįew Linux Distors may need to make sure libappindicator-1 and libnotify4 (or alternative desktop environment packages) are installed that Electron will be able to use! Close To Tray (Minimize To Tray without the Tray Icon).


