I added the Obvious basic_mpd widget to my setup. While I can see the text, the widget never updates to reflect the status of the actual mpd daemon. I run mpd on a non-standard port (to keep my personal account's instance from conflicting with the system-wide default) and so I suspect this is at the root of my problems even though the environment variable MPD_PORT is set in my .zshrc. I tried changing the port in the lib/mpd/init.lua file to default to my non-standard choice (6700 instead of 6600) and I tried various lines in the rc.lua intended to manually changing it (either by creating a new mpd connection and attempting to assign it or by attempting to manipulate the port directly), however all I ever see is "Music Off".
To compound the problem, I cannot find that there is an easy way to run diagnostics. There does not seem to be anything in .xsession-errors. There is no naughty notification when there is an error and I got odd Lua errors when I tried to add a notification. So, I guess my question is does anyone else have any experience getting the Obvious mpd interface working (and I also wanted to add keybindings, which is why I wanted to get the Obvious widget working instead of slapping together my own) or debugging these connection problems? Thanks, Michael -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
