Changeset 25 for mpd-status/trunk/README

Timestamp:

Mar 11, 2006, 10:12:41 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

simon

Message:

Update README with more general instructions. Add wmii status rc script examples.

File:

• mpd-status/trunk/README (modified) (3 diffs)

mpd-status/trunk/README

@@ -5 +5 @@
    [2]wmii's status bar.
 
-   If you want a more featureful status bar, check out [3]szs3rd, from
-   which I shamelessly copied and hacked the mpc.py module.
+   If you want a more featureful status bar for wmii, check out
+   [3]szs3rd, from which I shamelessly copied and hacked the mpc.py
+   module.
 
 Features
@@ -30 +31 @@
  [7]http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py
 
-Installation and Usage
+Usage
 
-   (Instructions are based around the setup for wmii 2 in [8]Debian)
+   When run, the script simply outputs current track information (or
+   '--Not playing--') to standard output.  To have this update
+   continuously, run it repeatedly inside a loop construct, for
+   example (using sh):
 
-    1. Place mpd-status.py somewhere, like /usr/local/bin/ or
-       ~/.wmii/scripts/
-    2. Copy /etc/wmii/status.sh to ~/.wmii/status.sh and edit it, or
-       edit /etc/wmii/status.sh directly.
-    3. Edit the following line to include "`python2.4
-       /path/to/mpc.py`" (see patch below for an example):
+ while true
+ do
+     mpd-status.py
+     sleep 1
+ done
 
- text="`date` `uptime | sed -e 's/.*://' -e 's/,//g'`"
-
-    4. Restart wmii: /etc/wmii/rc restart
-
-   You should see some extra text on your wmibar, either "--Not
-   playing--" or your currently playing/paused track.
+   Some example 'status' rc scripts for wmii 2.5 are contained in the
+   examples directory.
 
 License
@@ -76 +75 @@
   6. http://subversion.tigris.org/
   7. http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py
-  8. http://www.debian.org/
-  9. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
-  10. http://www.fsf.org/
-  11. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
-  12. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/wmii-mpd-status.patch
-  13. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/mpd-status.png
+  8. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
+  9. http://www.fsf.org/
+  10. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
+  11. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/wmii-mpd-status.patch
+  12. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/mpd-status.png