xmms2 notification with album art under Awesome

Question

I have the following in my .config/awesome/rc.lua:

--{{{ Display noify with current xmms2 playlist
function xmms2()
    local f = io.popen("nyxmms2 status -f '${artist} - ${album} - ${title}'")
    local fr = ""
    for line in f:lines() do
    fr = fr .. line .. '\n'
    end
    f:close()
    naughty.notify({ title = "Currently playing:", text = fr, timeout = 5})
end
--}}}

I would like to add album art to this.

Does anyone have an idea of how to do this?

I am looking for something like this mpd setup but for xmms2.

Answer 1

You can use notify-send for this. It supports the --icon switch which points to the pixel graphic to be displayed. Vector graphics don't seem to be supported. This can easily be hooked into the new song event of audio players. I don't know xmms2 so I can't provide details on how to do this. This is all you need for the notifications:

notify-send --expire-time=5000 --icon="$ALBUMART" "$ARTIST" "$SONG"

This solution works with the awesome WM.