14 March 2009

Quod Libet controller for Xfce Panel

I was planning to create a new standalone plugin, but I decide that that was way too much work. So, I used an existing plugin, quicklauncher, to do the job (i.e. control quodlibet) for me. Here's what it looks like:

And as far as I can tell it works fine. If you like Quod Libet and Xfce, you'll probably like this too. All you have to do is add a quicklauncher to your panel. In Debian you can get this plugin by installing the xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin package. Don't do anything to it. Next, download the following RC file and save it in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/ (and make sure it's named quicklauncher-quodlibet.rc) :

http://sites.google.com/site/danielbarrettbolton/files/quicklauncher-quodlibet.rc

Next, quit your Xfce session and log into a different one (failsafe terminal will work, we just can't have the Xfce session manager or other utilities running). Open ~/.config/xfce4/panel/panels.xml and find the line that looks like:



The number doesn't matter (unless you have multiple quicklaunchers, in which case you're on your own!), but we need to change the id to "quodlibet". Save the file, log back into Xfce, and voila. Now you can edit the laucher to your liking with a right-click.

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