#1 2016-10-04 20:20:30

Dinks

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From: Oxford

Registered: 2015-11-03

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Conky help - image with spaces in path

I am trying to include album art in Conky. How can I use paths containing spaces in ${image ...}?

I am getting the data from dbus (from gmusicbrowser) in a perl script.

Can anybody help?

Sector11

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Re: Conky help - image with spaces in path

Try these, they are archived over at #! - in read only mode, but it's a place to start.

How To - GMusicBrowser and Custom Layouts and if you still want it in Conky there is this as well How To - Conky/Lua, Music and Cover Art - 2 Methods for 18 Apps

kaivalagi's scripts are still available but I don't know if any of his music ones still work.

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PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

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Re: Conky help - image with spaces in path

How many image paths are there?

If there is just the one that gmusicbrowser uses to store images, you can create a one word symlink to the directory where the images are being stored. I just confirmed (but not with gmusicbrowser) that conky will follow the symlink to the image.

Another option would be to see if some sort of quoting can be used, i.e:

"image location"

Last edited by PackRat (2016-10-05 02:19:29)

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ohnonot

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Re: Conky help - image with spaces in path

If there is just the one that gmusicbrowser uses to store images, you can create a one word symlink to the directory where the images are being stored. I just confirmed (but not with gmusicbrowser) that conky will follow the symlink to the image.

your perl script should do that imho.