About

Little lua scipt that display album cover in conky.

Requirements

• lua filesystem
• imagemagick

Under Ubuntu, just do:

sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-filesystem0 imagemagick

How to use

1. In the settings section (before TEXT), add this:

   • lua_load /path/to/mpd_cover.lua

2. add in TEXT section something like:

    ${if_mpd_playing}\
    ${lua update_mpd_cover /path/where/store/found-cover /path/where/found/no-cover-image /path/to/music /path/to/sonata/covers/dir/if/you/use/it}\
    ${image /path/where/store/found-cover -n -p2,2}
    ${endif}
   

just look at conkyrc-full-example

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