go-chromecast VS tdrop

VLC is good for radio streams...but you must use http not https URLs (otherwise it doesn't display tags)

go-chromecast for watching Youtube without commercials. Also for casting video files

Built-in Screensaver is nice...

Spotify is great on big screen when TV is connected to decent stereo. My favourite way to listen to music recently..

Sometimes I watch Bloomberg using its app.

I generally keep Google TV in "Apps only" mode... Down to bare minimum.

https://github.com/vishen/go-chromecast

I checked out its dependancy, Go-Chromecast, and actually installed it.

i'm using this https://github.com/vishen/go-chromecast

Google Chromecast CLI

I don't understand that either. My bedtime routine sets the volume on all of my speakers, and that used to mean an awkward ten second silence while I wonder if it's actually working. I ended up writing some code to set the volume using go-chromecast instead. Now they all make that little volume pop sound almost simultaneously, which is very satisfying.

You might be interested in go-chromecast, it can handle playlists natively eg go-chromecast playlist ~/playlist_test/. Its actively developed, has a really handy tui, and there is a git package in the aur. After trying probably every client its by far my fav.

tdrop is wm agnostic (I use it in dwm), very easy to set up and does the same thing.

tdrop

Let us start with the terminal itself. Alacritty is a cross-platform modern terminal emulator with sensible defaults. It is GPU accelerated, super fast, and highly configurable. You can use it on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It doesn't have much in terms of a UI, and hence all configurations are done through YAML files. I don't use it as my primary terminal as I love Yakuake too much for all its cool features. We can get most of those features (tabs, split panes, dropdown mode) using tmux and tdrop if really needed. I use Alacrity when I need speed and GPU acceleration. There is an excellent tutorial on using Alacritty with tmux.

tdrop is de/wm agnostic and can make most terminals a drop down terminal.

I've been using tdrop for about a year and not knowing how to get rid of the green bar it put at the bottom. Well, now that's fixed and I've learned to use tmux to switch between newsboat, cmus, lf, etc. -TY!

You can also use tdrop to turn any terminal into a dropdown terminal

So it's pretty clear what happens and why. I'm using tdrop, a little tool that allows you to use any terminal emulator as a drop-down terminal/scratchpad. Calling tdrop terminal with some parameters will show a terminal window, calling it again will hide it. I've bound this to a key, let's say HOTKEY.

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