This is a quick (and dirty) tutorial on how to add provider plugin to GMPC. The plugin is written in VALA and assumed to be part of the GMPC source tree. (so not a separate plugin). You can use the EXACT same tutorial to write an external plugin, you only need to add some auto-fu read more
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Reduce MPD power consumption
May 17, 2011 – 4:55 pm
Saving power when using MPD. On your laptop battery power is everything? but playing music means a lot too. Playing music can easily decrease your battery life significant. For example on my netbook it cost me 22% battery, this is the difference between almost 9.5 hours of battery life time and just 7.5 hours. So read more
GMPC startup time
May 13, 2011 – 7:55 pm
Starting gmpc: ?View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 0.001684:main: Setting up locale 0.016553:main: Parsing command line options 0.016619:main: Initializing threading 0.016625:main: Gtk init 0.016629:main: EggSmClient 0.016669:main: Check version and create paths 0.017135:main: Opening config file: /home/qball/.config/gmpc/gmpc.cfg 0.017144:main: read more
more Gnome 3 / Gtk3 thoughts
May 8, 2011 – 9:27 pm
How do I make gnome dim the backlight when on battery? I used to be able todo this. How do I set gtk3 theme outside of gnome3? (in gnome 3 you seem to be able todo it with gnome-tweak-tool).