projectm VS toastify

In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, what's the deal with binary symlinking not working? Example, the ProjectM visualizer I downloaded and moved to a more static directory. It runs fine in that directory but when I symlink it via KDE's Dolphin by drag/dropping to my desktop, it does nothing. Same when I try to make a shortcut in KDE's application launcher. Why is it so to be like that for when you do it to get your shortcut?

I think this is the spiritual successor to Winamp's visualiser, ProjectM:

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

If you're referring this this ProjectM, then it looks like Steam might be the best option.

It can also be used standalone from this github

Here you go, open-source, stand-alone version of the winamp visualiser: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

You might give Milkdrop a try. It started as a Winamp visualization plugin. It has its own scripting language and a ton of presets you can poke at to figure out how things work. I'm not sure what state Winamp is in these days, but Milkdrop has been ported to work as a Foobar2000 plugin called ProjectM. It looks like there's also a standalone version now, too: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

I have this currently working without problems https://github.com/aleab/toastify but I see that there are other versions on Github.

Toastify: allows you to control the volume of Spotify independently of game volume. Since my keyboard has previous/next song and pause buttons, this is really all I require (would be nice to be able to select songs from in-game though!). To install, go to: https://aleab.github.io/toastify/. Click on latest release, install, and set up so that e.g. ctr+shift+ (+/-) keys can be used to lower/increase the volume of Spotify. This on its own can be pretty practical.

I have similar shortcuts for spotify using Toastify.