Enable Cover Art And Badge In Docky

By , Published December 21, 2009

Docky developer supremo Jason Smith shared a small tweak to enable Cover Art on your Docky dock – complete with countdown badge – in the comments of previous Docky post.
 

The “hack” is simple and whilst this feature is disabled by default for a reason, it’s worth enabling just to peek at and disabling again if you don’t like it.

This feature is a Banshee exclusive currently and requires the Banshee control extension to be enabled.

Enable Cover Art in Docky
  • Open a terminal.
  • Depending on where you have Docky installed, punch in: –
  • sudo gedit /usr/local/share/docky/helpers/banshee_control.py
  • or
  • sudo gedit /usr/share/docky/helpers/banshee_control.py
  • Find the 25th and 26th lines. These read: -

  • Change them both from ‘False’ to ‘True’. (Note the capitalized first letter)
  • Restart Docky. Open Banshee. Play a track.
  • You’ll seethe Banshee icon change to the cover art for the playing track.

Issues
As cautioned above, this was disabled for a reason. I noticed a few glitches now and again – mostly with artwork getting stuck or Banshee not reverting back to its own icon after closing. None of these threaten the stability of your system, but they’re worth nothing anyhow.

thanks to Jason Smith
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/SeifSallam Seif Sallam

    editing the source python code, thats so dirty.

  • http://disqus.com/forums/omgubuntu/willwillibex_one_of_the_best_forgotten_themes/trackback/ virtualspectre8@googlemail.com

    Docky is getting better and better. I’ve been playing with AWN and Cairo Dock but they feel slow and sluggish and for me, they don’t really make sense. Docky goes straight to the point, it’s fast, smooth and light and it works.

    Docky, Gnome-do and Gloobus have changed the way I use my Gnome desktop forever. I can’t live wothout these apps.

    Oh! and I hated docks before Docky! But it really rocks!

  • zekopeko

    To the author of this article:

    Don’t use sudo for GUI apps. Use gksudo. There could be some problems if you use sudo IIRC.

  • http://do.davebsd.com/ Jason Smith

    Oops, just was informed I left some ;’s in there. Not strictly needed by python… oh my C#’isms are getting the best of me.

  • Mohan

    Docky is becoming extremely powerful! Me like! :D

  • http://disqus.com/forums/omgubuntu/enable_cover_art_and_badge_in_docky/trackback/ Mexican_User

    is there an easy way to install docky?
    I tried with bzr but it told me *insert random list of problems*
    Is there a deb :)

  • Anonymous

    where can I find those wallpapers?

  • http://dottorblaster.it/ Bl@ster

    Obviously if you update Docky, the cover-art-effect…puff! Vanishes :P

  • http://pastebin.com/m7be628f3 Boondoklife

    Here is a hacked up version of the py file that fixes the bugs you were experiencing, atleast it did for me.

    Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/m7be628f3 (will be there for a month)