XMMS notifications

A comment in an Article on Debian Administration on desktop notifications mentioned a useful command for the "song change" plugin in xmms:

kdialog --title "Playing on xmms" --passivepopup 
"` xmms-shell -e status |grep Playing |cut -d":" -f2`" 5

As kdialog is quite slow (takes 400 ms for connecting to dcop, etc.) and displays a very ugly balloon popup (like in MS Windows) I prefer

notify-send -u low --icon=/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/xmms.png 
 "Playing on xmms" "`xmms-shell -e status | grep Playing | cut -d':' -f2`" 

Very slick, indeed:

notify-send is in the libnotify-bin package in Debian.

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Posted by Raphael Wimmer on September 1, 2006

https://raphaelwimmer.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/xmms-notifications/