playerctl VS .dotfiles

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.

Sure, it's in my dotfiles repo. Here are the scripts. You'll notice they are actually quite short and simple. There's also the templates directory that contains, well, the templates. The heavy lifting is done by the configuration in each program. Since not all of them allow for an easy way to import other files, I had to get creative for some of them...

Here's my config, it's not very big.

Here is my eww config.

And here's my config for both qtile and awesome (I don't have anything written for xmonad yet), in case you need it: https://github.com/tralph3/.dotfiles/tree/master/.config

Anyone has any idea on what might be causing this? Here's my config for both WMs if you want to see them.

I use this: https://github.com/tralph3/.dotfiles/blob/master/.config/nvim/lua/setup/lspconfig.lua

If you don't know how neovim is configured then I guess any config may be too much. I know I was super confused when I first started. The best thing for you to do is to try to piece together your own config over time. I personally think my config is very readable and easy to modify, but that's probably because I wrote it and I know where everything is. That said, it's not too big, so it may be easier for you to understand: https://github.com/tralph3/.dotfiles

In case you want to check how this works: Arch install script, dotfiles.

Can't reproduce. The language server never goes over 0.1% of my memory according to htop. Must be something wrong in your config. You might want to take a look at how I configure my lsp servers, here. Note that the author of lspconfig recommends against nvim-lsp-installer.

I think mine is pretty neat: https://github.com/tralph3/.dotfiles/tree/master/.config/nvim