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Banshee and AWN

I just tried out Avant Window Navigator for the first time, after seeing Neil’s latest blog entry. It’s pretty slick, and worth trying if you have xgl/aiglx/whatever. I also wrote a Banshee plugin which makes the current track cover appear in the dock.


Banshee playing “Stadium Arcadium”

You can get the plugin here. Just drop the dll into ~/.gnome2/banshee/plugins.

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By snorp
2/28/2007

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  1. Adam Williamson said
    on 2/28/2007

    Well, it’s slick, but not really very functional at all. I like gimmie a lot more, even though it doesn’t have the whizzy effects. I couldn’t use a-w-n as a panel replacement, but I do use gimmie for that.

  2. Andrew O'Neil said
    on 2/28/2007

    Cheers dude. Works great :D

  3. Michael said
    on 2/28/2007

    in the source there’S still mention of the multimedia keys plugin ;-)

  4. Kerrick said
    on 3/1/2007

    Sweet… I had no idea this program existed. I absolutely love the plugin. It would be sweet if the icon could display progress on operations: Import, Burning, Ripping, etc as in the screencast on Niel’s blog.

  5. Paul Cutler said
    on 3/1/2007

    Thank you!

  6. gilir said
    on 3/15/2007

    Hi :)

    Thanks for this plugin. Work very well for me :)

    Is it possible to adapt it to add command in the dock ? (Possible with the last SVN version, a Rhythmbox plugin doing that is available).

  7. vishy said
    on 5/15/2007

    Thanks for the plugin.

    Is it possible to add control buttons like play/pause, next, previous to the plugin just like in rhythmbox plugin.

  8. vishy said
    on 6/1/2007

    I have seen a strange problem using the plugin. After enabling the plugin in banshee, when i close the application, the applications restarts automatically. This happens at least 2-3 times before the application closes.

    I tried disabling the plugin and works fine.

  9. Binford3000 said
    on 2/9/2008

    I think I discovered a bug. When you enable your awn plugin in banshee and try to stream a (user-added) internet radio station, banshee crashes. If I disable the plugin, radio is playing fine.

  10. Ben said
    on 6/15/2008

    Is there a way to make this work with Banshee 1.0?

  11. Jack said
    on 6/15/2008

    Another one looking for Banshee 1.0 compatibility. Cheers.

  12. Simon said
    on 6/16/2008

    Hey, nice work!
    +1 For 1.0 compatibility ;-)

  13. Adam said
    on 6/24/2008

    Since Banshee is being installed as “banshee-1″ these days, where does the .dll file go? There is no such folder as ~/.gnome2/banshee/plugins, and I’ve tried putting the .dll in the Extensions and Banshee.Plugins folders in both /usr/lib/banshee-1/ and /usr/lib/banshee as well as ~/.config/banshee/plugins and ~/.config/banshee-1/plugins

    Would like for this to start working soon :)

  14. itsjustarumour said
    on 7/9/2008

    Yet another +1 for updating this for Banshee 1.0! ;-)

  15. gilir said
    on 7/10/2008

    A plugin for new banshee is available in the awn-extras bzr repository : https://code.launchpad.net/~awn-extras/awn-extras/trunk

  16. 987poiuytrewq said
    on 1/5/2009

    Has anyone got the plugin for banshee-1 (1.4.1 to be precise) to work? I managed to install the plugin into banshee correctly i.e. it shows up in the list of plugins in Edit > Preferences > Extensions > AwnIcon . However, the launcher for banshee in awn just has the default banshee icon regardless of what is playing. Have I missed a step in configuring Awn or is banshee-1 still unsupported?

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Banshee, Mugshot, and AWN at sil’s babbling linked to this post on 3/1/2007

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  2. links for 2007-03-02 at sil’s babbling linked to this post on 3/2/2007

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