igorw765/Regulus-Spotify

Regulus-Spotify is a customizable Conky theme that displays weather, system information, and Spotify song details on Linux systems.

Table of Contents

• Regulus-Spotify
  • Description
  • Installation
  • Tested Environment
  • Screenshots
  • License

Regulus-Spotify

Regulus-Spotify is a conky theme available for all Linux systems. This theme is based on the Regulus theme, which is available at https://github.com/closebox73/Leonis. It displays weather, time, date, CPU, RAM, discs, and internet usage. When a song is playing on Spotify, it displays the song's name, artist, and cover.

Requirements

• Conky
• Cairo
• Lua
• Ffmpeg
• Playerctl
• Jq
• Sed
• Git

Installation

You can either follow the steps provided below to install the theme, or make use of the installation script that is available in the releases tab. You can also change appearience of theme executing initial-setup.sh script. Regardless of the method you choose, it is necessary to install all dependencies.

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/igorw765/Regulus-Spotify.git
   

2. Install the required dependencies:

   sudo apt-get install conky jq cairo lua5.3 ffmpeg playerctl sed git
   

3. Download all the fonts from the font folder.

4. If your monitor resolution is not 1080x1920p, you may need to modify the code manually. To change the position of elements, play with the offset, voffset, and alignr values.

5. To modify the color of the text, execute color.sh script located in scripts folder.

6. To change the rings color, execute rings.sh script located in scripts folder.

7. To display network speeds properly, execute network.sh script located in scripts folder (You still need to manually change color of the graphs).

8. Assign your current city's city_id to the city_id= line inside the weather.sh file located in the scripts folder. You can find your city's ID on the OpenWeatherMap website. You can also execute localization.sh script located in scripts folder

9. Start the theme by running the start.sh script:

   bash /path/to/Regulus-Spotify/start.sh
   

The start.sh script will set the necessary permissions and start the conky command to display the theme.

10. Automatically start Conky during system startup on GNOME by using the conky.desktop file. Note that certain adjustments may be necessary.

Tested Environment

This code was tested on Arch Linux with the Gnome desktop environment.

Screenshots

The wallpaper shown in the screenshots is included in the following repository: https://gist.github.com/85942af486eb79118467.git

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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