CrunchBang Linux

packrat,ohnonot: Thanks guys

Oh dear God, you're right - I've been spelling Celsius wrong my whole life :-)

With the music player, you are looking at 3 urxvt terminals. The first is just a standard ncmpcpp in playlist mode, the second is ncmpcpp in visualizer mode, and the third is a perl script of my own which displays a progress/status bar for MPD. All 3 urxvt are embedded within a single instance of FvwmButtons, a configurable kind of panel that allows you to embed text, images, and other programs within a single window. Lastly, an external coverart script sometimes reminds FvwmButtons to update the album art.

Yes, indeed - it only seems to use about 8MB. That said, I am hoping for a simpler tool to use within a script. I already use ncmpcpp for music playlists, but want to write my own script to do the radio streams.

If I decode an aac file with faad, it only uses 700KiB of memory. But faad will only decode from a file though, not from stdin. So I feel sure that if an aac123 existed, then its memory footprint would be small. But until an aac123 is written, my options will remain limited.

Thanks for your comments guys.

I have done that in the past with devilspie - modifies the properties of newly created windows. gdevilspie is a nice gui with which you can set it up with. And I am sure other ways exist too.

sudo apt-get install gdevilspie devilspie

Thanks Alad, defsound worked okay for me, and programs like mplayer and mpv now work fine. But what is the best way to make that alsa default setting system-wide rather than just for the current user?

On my system, mpd is a system daemon which runs as user "mpd". Yet user "mpd" isn't typically setup with login rights or a home folder. So running defsound as my normal user fixed sound for everything except mpd. Of course, I did get mpd going after editing /etc/mpd.conf. Even so, setting a systemwide alsa default would be simpler for me in the future.

@twoion @Sector11 : You are most welcome. I wrote mtoc() after having tried to read the 8411 line fvwm manpage :-/

You're most welcome!

Thanks. And I like your sreenshots a lot too. But since you're looking at the configs... 

The coverart on ncmpcpp is a feh image viewer on the top layer. Such that if ncmpcpp was moved, then it would look wrong. But move, resize, maximize, iconify could be disabled in the fvwm config if I needed.

The histogram is just a perl script - shows downloading for the last hour. But the histogram uses 6p bitmap fixed, whereas the labeled axis is in 14p. So the labeled axis is actually a separate image, and the two are contained in an FvwmButtons.

This is more an observation than a solution. My distro is synced to "testing" rather than "stable" repos. And recently, a package upgrade for slim slightly changed the format of /etc/slim.conf. Such that before, your windows managers were listed in the conf file like this...

sessions    startxfce4,openbox,fvwm

Whereas now, that line in the conf has changed to just point to a folder that contains the same info, like this...

# Set directory that contains the xsessions.
# slim reads xsesion from this directory, and be able to select.
sessiondir            /usr/share/xsessions/

If this is your problem, then perhaps check that /usr/share/xsessions contains the files that slim expects to find there.

+1 for your good taste in music ^^^. "The Songs of Distant Earth" was a great album...

Glad you liked it :-)

Gonna work on the .fvwmrc for a while before I post it to that thread though. Like Debian, it's ready when it's ready...

First scrot here, albeit a repost.

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