Now Clocking

Made with ❤️ by @gamehelp16, @Rayzr522 and @pierrot-lc.

Now Clocking is a Conky widget which shows a Monstercat style Now Playing when music is played or a clock when no music is playing.

This fork comes with the following modifications from the original repo:

• Only relies on playerctl to find information about the currently played song.
• Text is specified in relative size instead of absolute pixel size (adapt to screen resolution).
• The conky configuration is easy to modify for your own needs.

Table of contents

• Requirements
  • Packages
  • Fonts
  • Supported Players
• Installation
• Credits

Requirements

Packages

• conky
• playerctl

Fonts

• Montserrat Light
• Gotham Bold
• Gotham Book

Supported Players

This fork actually support all players that talk to playerctl. This has some downsides, as for example it will detect when a standard Youtube video is played, which in this case would be better if it was not detected.

Installation

1. Install all required packages:

# Ubuntu/Debian based
$ sudo apt install conky playerctl

2. Clone the repo:

git clone git@github.com:pierrot-lc/now-clocking.git

3. Ensure that all required fonts are installed:

./scripts/download-fonts.sh

4. Run the start.sh script to start the widget (forks to background):

./now-clocking.sh

5. (Optional) Run the autostart.sh script to make it automatically run on startup:

./autostart.sh

Credits

Huge props to the original creator, @gamehelp16.

Same huge props to the second fork @Rayzr522, which is the implementation I used originally.

Finally, huge props to Hoefler & Frere-Jones for the wonderful Gotham fonts, and Julieta Ulanovsky (and crew) for the slick Montserrat font.