CoverGloobus 1.5 Released – Gets Theme Preview, Auto-restart, Exaile Support & More

By , Published October 22, 2009

CoverGloobus version 1.5 has been released bringing with it new themes, usability improvements and more.

CoverGloobus is a theme-able standalone ‘€now playing€ application that displays the currently playing track on your desktop.

I've blogged and blogged and blogged about CoverGloobus before. I truly do love it so I’m stoked for the new release!

The new version brings with it amongst other things: –

  • New Themes (Including one by me!)
  • Pressing Esc quits and saves position
  • You can now choose to have CoverGloobus displayed €œAlways on top€
  • You can now move the widget around by simply clicking on it
  • Optional lyric services
  • Theme preview on configuration
  • When configuration changed, covergloobus is restarted
  • Exaile 3. Listen & Quodlibet support

Full announcement and list of changes available on the official site @ http://gloobus.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/covergloobus-1-5/


Download
http://jordihp.deviantart.com/art/covergloobus-1-5-141105480


Install
CoverGloobus runs from its folder, so download it, extract it and then move it somewhere safe!
You configure CoverGloobus by double-clicking CoverGloobus-config.py. From here you can choose theme, player and lyrics engine.

Config menu

You can start CoverGloobus by double-clicking CoverGloobus.py

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://garret.netsons.org Garret

    I see you have chromium in your gnome-do bar. Me too. But I noticed the annoying issue that when I click on the chromium icon, it appears a new chromium icon (less quality) on the bar.
    Do you know how can I solve this issue?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I don’t use Chromium I use Google-Chrome-Unstable and that issue/bug isn’t there anymore.

      Though I’m not sure if it’s because i use a bleeding edge version of Do or whether it’s because i use Chrome and Chromium..

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    I couldn’t get it to work on Ubuntu 9.0.4 64bit i get

    “Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “./CoverGloobus-config.py”, line 250, in
    pid = sys.argv[1]
    IndexError: list index out of range”

    when i run CoverGloobus-config.py , any ideas

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Oddly mine worked fine until it froze and now i get the same ‘error’. I extracted the folder again and tried running but i get the same issue…

      From what i understand it’s simply no longer seeing the path.. i think a reboot should solve it. We’ll see…

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        Logging out and back in solved it for me.

        If you get the error again, try launching the config window via the cover itself.
        open covergloobus.py
        right click on it and select ‘config’.

        It should pop up

  • Jens

    hey what theme is that on your first screenshot?

  • http://gloobus.wordpress.com/ Jordi

    Hey I’m Badchoice the developer of covergloobus, I really like the theme ins your screenshot, Is that done by you? I would like to add that in the next release!! :D

    Apart of it, I really like your blog, now is the first blog I read everyday!!

    We keep in touch!

    • p45

      lol the developer asking a blogger the theme they are using
      what is the world coming to ;)

  • Name

    I seem to get the same error that others are getting. If I change the theme in ‘configure’ once the app is running, it will close and refuse to open again.

  • http://twitter.com/kinesthesia kinesthesia

    Covergloobus is great now that a couple of new features have been added. <3 And I'm using this script to start it up with Rhythmbox:

    #!/bin/bash
    /home/sensory/.covergloobus/CoverGloobus.py &
    COVERPID=$!
    rhythmbox &
    RHYTHMBOXPID=$!
    wait $RHYTHMBOXPID
    kill $COVERPID

    Starts it with Rhythmbox and closes it when Rhythmbox closes.

    • Anonymous

      Umm… Your script appears to have killed my Rhythmbox. :D

      As soon as I tried it, I get this every time I get this when pressing play:

      TypeError: Cannot create a consistent method resolution
      order (MRO) for bases ImplementorIface, Orientable, Buildable
      **
      ERROR:/build/buildd/pygobject-2.18.0/gobject/pygobject.c:924:pygobject_new_full: assertion failed: (tp != NULL)
      Aborted

      • http://twitter.com/kinesthesia kinesthesia

        Very weird. Then again, I edited the script from its original intention which was to start Banshee with Covergloobus. It might have messed up something. :o

  • Arturo

    Someone must say: “You can change the font text editing: (your_covergloobus_folder)../Themes/(name_of_theme)/skin.xml file..”

  • http://www.kombostudio.nl Richard Venneman

    Looks great :)

  • Matt

    CG 1.5 won’t work on Ubuntu 9.10. :( Anyone know how to get it to work?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It will work on 9.10 hence why i’m using it 9.10!

      Have you got python installed? Did you grant it executable permissions? Have you configured it?

  • Alx

    Please d0od, what’s the covergloobus theme on your screenshot?
    Did you made it yourself?
    If well, are you going to share it?
    Thx.