mpdart is a simple X application that displays the album art of the currently playing mpd song and lets you toggle play pause. It spends almost all of it's time idle and only uses 0.1% of my RAM and 0.0% of my CPU according to top.
C compiler
make
libX11
libmpdclient
libim2
pkg-config # optional build time dependency
./configure.sh
make
make install # supports PREFIX and DESTDIR
There are four flags:
mpdart -d musicdir -h host -p port -t timeout # timeout is milliseconds
Though all but -d have default values:
mpdart -d ~/music
These options can also be configured in the enviorment variables MPDART_DIR, MPDART_HOST, MPDART_PORT, and MPDART_TIMEOUT.
To make these changes persistent, export them in your ~/.profile.
Once mpdart is running you can left click the window to toggle mpd's pause/play or right click it to close it.
If you like github you can contribute by sending in a pull request at https://github.com/depsterr/mpdart
If you don't like github you can contribute by emailing me at depsterr at protonmail dot com with the output of
git format-patch
after you've commited your changes to your local tree.
Big thanks to my friend wooosh for helping me debug and develop this :)