wmusic
by Hadess <hadess@hadess.net>
maintained by John <john+wmusic@jtan.com>
wmusic is a dockapp that remote-controls xmms. Here is a list of the features:
- VCR style controls including fast rewind and fast forward
- Time and Playlist position display
- Super stylee rotating arrow
- Hiding of the xmms windows (on startup and through middle-click)
- AfterStep users, add this line to your ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/wharf:
*Wharf wmusic - Swallow "wmusic" wmusic -w &
- Sawfish users, grab Tiger-T's DockMill theme, and apply it to the running
dockapp with the -w flag on. See the theme's README for more details.
- KDE users can use the "Dock Application Bar" to dock wmusic, don't forget
the -w flag to launch wmusic. Right-Click on Kicker, then pick:
Add->Extension->Dock Application Bar
http://home.jtan.com/~john/index.shtml?software.shtml
Building
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Requirements:
- xmms >= 1.0.0 and all the appropriate devel packages (glib,
gtk+, xmms, glibc...)
- xmms > 1.2.4 if you have problems with the prefs window popping up
Simply type:
./configure
make
make install
URLs
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XMMS: http://xmms.org
DockMill: http://tigert.gimp.org/files/sawmill-themes/DockMill.tar.gz
Changelog
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- 1.5.0
* Added -R option to start xmms when wmusic is started, and to exit wmusic
when xmms exits.
(Thanks to Mateusz Greszta)
* Incremented the minor version number, getting sick of 1.4.xx releases :)
- 1.4.14
* Fixed the configure/manpage issue from 1.4.13 :)
- 1.4.13
* Added Russian/Ukrainian glyph support.
(Thanks to Alexey Voinov <voins@voins.program.ru>,
Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>)
- 1.4.12
* Added patch to make sure xmms is running before calling some functions.
(Thanks to Michael Cohrs <<michael@cohrs.de>)
* Added patch to fix volume slider overdrawing.
(Thanks to Zdik Kudrle <zdik.kudrle@borg.cz>)
* Added patch to treat main window just like playlist, equalizer, with regard
to visibility after right-clicking the wmusic app.
(Thanks to Nicolas Hinz <nicolas-hinz@gmx.de>)
- 1.4.11
* Added patch to show volume slider (-b flag), allowing volume control
without a scroll mouse.
(Thanks to Alessandro Budai <budai@ingsun1.univ.trieste.it>)
- 1.4.10
* Added patch to fix segfaults caused by wrong size of displayRect array
(Thanks to Alexey Voinov <voins@voins.program.ru>)
- 1.4.9
* Added patch to stop rotating arrow when XMMS is paused (-a flag)
* Added patch to switch between time left and time elapsed display
(-l flag to start with time left)
* Changed docs to reflect new maintainership (John Chapin)
- 1.4.8
* Corrected e-mail addresses
- 1.4.7
* KDE support removed (maybe) because it breaks everything else (should fix
the "buttons not clickable" problem)
- 1.4.6
* Non-GNU make fixes (thanks to Eric Melville <eric@freebsd.org>)
* KDE support in libdockapp (thanks to Alain Schroeder <alain@mini.gt.owl.de>)
* KDE testing and README update (thanks to Eric Christopherson from #kde-users)
- 1.4.5
* Fixed another leak (will it ever stop ?)
(thanks to Ulrich Seidl for finding it out)
- 1.4.4
* Fixed a leak (thanks to Gerry OKeefe for reporting this one)
- 1.4.3
* Fixed volume flag to be -V (collided with -v/--version)
* Updated man page
* Fixed a leak
* Fixed title "freezing" when emptying the playlist
* Changed the separator for the scrolling title (and the code as well)
* Added ()*/ to the recognized characters
* Fixed a segfault related to the new separator code
- 1.4.2
* Updated manpage
* Added manpage by Alain Schroeder
* Added -t flag to start with title display (idea by Antoine Labour as well)
* Added apostroph in title (Antoine Labour <antoine.labour@m4x.org>)
* Fixed 2 segfaults (title related again)
- 1.4.1
* Fixed wmusic.spec.in (thanks to g0sh on OPN)
* Really fixed the title display bugs
* Make sure to use -w to run it under window managers other than Window Maker
* Made the title scrolling speed slower
- 1.4
* Debian fixes and maintainership (Alain Schroeder)
* Wheel scroll support for volume change (thanks Marius Aamodt Eriksen)
* Added scroll title display, had to rework the GUI a bit
- 1.2.6
* Added hours:minutes display for songs longer than 99 minutes and 59 seconds
(idea by Scott Mc Dermott <scottm@octaldream.com>)
* Now upstream Debian package
- 1.2.5
* Changed the size of the dockapp to 64x64, now Sawfish compatible
- 1.2.4
* Included libdockapp inside the archive, it is not needed to download and
install it separately.
* Added AfterStep compatibility
- 1.2.3
* Removed -n option (don't run XMMS on startup)
* Added -r option (run XMMS on startup)
* Double-click on the display will now run XMMS
* Added more differences between XMMS not playing / XMMS not running
- 1.2.2
* fixed a crazy cpu bug, threads are no more used
- 1.2.1
* changed the name from wmplay to wmusic
* fixed a bug (uninitialized var. was used on some circumstances)
* removed the close-on-xmms-close (click on the display to run xmms)
* added -n switch to avoid running xmms on startup
- 1.2
* a little bug fix for transparency
* added autoconf support, thanks to Logan
- 1.1.9
* Added -x switch for wmxmms like mouse-bindings
(lo_tek wanted it :P)
- 1.1.8
* Now multi-threaded, so that the display is independant of the rest
- 1.1.0
* Rewrote to use libdockapp rather than gdk
- 0.9.9
* Added Stereo/Mono display
* Added kbps display
- 0.9
* Added time and pos display, and the rotating arrow
* Switched the building to a Makefile
- 0.1
* First version, only the bottom buttons are working
Copyright
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Plain and simple GPL version 2.0, see COPYING for more infos
- based on design work of Antoine Nulle and Martjin Pieterse
- double-click code from WMpop by Jérôme SAUTRET (jerome@linuxfan.com)
