Dotfiles.system VS playerctl

Probably using BTRBK. I'm using it for some time now, and it never failed on me. Here are my BTRBK config files for it: https://github.com/rizzini/Dotfiles.system/tree/master/etc/btrbk

My full refind.conf for better visualization.

At least here, root's cron jobs are stored at /var/spool/cron/root. https://github.com/rizzini/Dotfiles.system/blob/master/var/spool/cron/root

PKG_subvol.conf - Clean every 3 days.

Good catch. You really, really should change that behavior. It's not healthy for your SSD. Do it manually or even better, use continuous TRIM setting the discard flag on your fstab like this.

Anbox script bound to META + A keys. I don't need to open some third-party software, like Waydroid's case, so I start it directly using a Systemd service unit configuration file. Besides that unit file, I made a simple script that opens Anbox and closes it if I run the script again. Script. anbox.service file.

BTRBK on the other hand, it's super flexible and holds lots of possibilities. You can, for example, automatically copy the snapshots to another storage device. You can do that even though SSH if you're into that. Here you can find how I set it up on my environment for my ROOT and HOME subvolumes.

if you dont mind setting up command shortcuts, look into playerctl https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl

The latest nwg-shell-config update brings a new tab, to configure idle and lock screen settings. Under the hood, it provides the nwg-lock command, which is a wrapper around gtklock or swaylock. It adds a random image background, either local, or downloaded from https://unsplash.com. You may also display an overlay window to control mpris media player with playerctl.

Yes it would be possible to pipe the output into a script/program and parse it to extract the information, but in my opinion not the best solution. Instead you can query information from media players that support MPRIS https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MPRIS via tools like playerctl https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl

Playerctl can control the currently active media player.

I think both firefox and vlc support MPRIS, which can be controlled from the command line using playerctl, if you have that installed: ssh name@host playerctl play-pause

You can use playerctl for browsers, spotify and similar players.

VLC (and therefore cvlc as well, I suppose) can be controlled via MPRIS (using playerctl, for example).

My super-duper simple playerctl script that works flawlessly for years to prioritize my media keys to work on Spotify or ncspot over anything else. If I'm listening to Spotify or ncspot, why do I need to control any other stuff with my media keys, right?! Without it, if I have any other mpris player open, which can be a lot of things some not even related to media, my keyboard media keys won't focus on the music players I use for actually listening to music. ncspot doesn't respond to playerctl --player=ncspot play-pause, so I have to detect if it is playing or paused, so I can run playerctl --player=ncspot play or playerctl --player=ncspot pause separately. Script.

Try playerctl.