February 2012
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VLC and Conky
I needed a way to display currently playing item from VLC in Conky. The usual solution doesn’t work for me as it doesn’t seem to display track names when listening to radio streams.
So here’s an alternative way which utilizes window title of VLC window (which actually displays track name). It uses xlsclients command which lists currently opened X11 windows and their properties....