Conky and Radio Tray?

[Carl]

I've got conky up and running and I want it to display the current playing track on Radio Tray (http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/) I'm not really sure how I'd go about this however Radio Tray does use NotifyOSD to display the current song being played on the radio station so I was wondering if I could get conky to display the last line of the NotifyOSD log?

located at: ~/.cache/notify-osd.log

so currently the last couple of lines look like this

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[2011-05-12T15:33:58-00:00, Radio Tray ] Radio Tray - GaydarRadio
De’ Lacy - Hideaway  @GaydarRadio

so I'd want radio tray to display what’s on the second line

[Edit 1] - Okay adding the line below will get it to display the whole file but how would I get it to always display the last line and then periodically check?

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${execi 30 cat ~/.cache/notify-osd.log}

[Habitual]

check out "text_buffer_size" at http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html

Real-life example I use:
text_buffer_size 2048

[Carl]

check out "text_buffer_size" at http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html

Real-life example I use:
text_buffer_size 2048

but unfortunately text_buffer_size has a minimum of 256 which is too much and also it shows the first lines of text from the file which are the oldest notifications

[Habitual]

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${execi 30 cat ~/.cache/notify-osd.log}

${execi 30 cat ~/.cache/notify-osd.log| tail -1}

[Carl]

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${execi 30 cat ~/.cache/notify-osd.log}

${execi 30 cat ~/.cache/notify-osd.log| tail -1}

yep thanks for that after I posted about the other bit not working out I searched and found this

${execi 30 tail -4 ~/.cache/notify-osd.log}

which looks very similar to yours

now if I could sort out the text from being cut off from the right side, I know increasing the maximum width would do this but it would also make it wider then I would like... coulld not get it to squeeze onto more lines instead?

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#!/usr/bin/conky -d -c
##   .conkyrc configuration
alignment top_left
background yes
border_margin 5
border_width 5
color0 555555         #
color1 FCAF3E         # zolty
color2 2a2a2a         # braz
color3 a82553         # rozowy f71f84
color4 5e1014         # bordowy
color5 64574e         # braz
color6 2a2a2a         # szary
color7 8888CC         #  (COOL)
color8 9d9c61         # zolto-szary
color9 525276         # niebiesko-szary
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color ffffff      # szary 5f5f5f
default_outline_color 000000    # Black
default_shade_color 000000   # Black
double_buffer yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
gap_x 30
gap_y 80
max_specials 1024
max_user_text 10000
maximum_width 200
minimum_size 175
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
override_utf8_locale yes
own_window yes
own_window_colour 000000   # Black
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override ## normal
pad_percents 2         # to co nizej, miejsc po przecinku
short_units yes         # krotka wersja podawania wielkosci dyskow np. 612.21M/3.80G
stippled_borders 3
text_buffer_size 8000
total_run_times 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer right
use_xft yes
xftalpha 1
xftfont Freesans:pixelsize=9

lua_load /home/didisoft/.conky/lua.lua

# ${diskiograph /dev/sda 15,180 a7a7a7 a7a7a7} # wskaznik pracy dysku
# ${image /home/didisoft/.conky/didisoft.jpg -p 0,80 -s 26x28} # obrazki w conky


TEXT
${font Zegoe Light - U:pixelsize=24}${time %H:%M:%S}${font}
${font Zegoe Light - U:pixelsize=12}${time %A} - ${time  %B %d, %Y}${font}


${execi 30 cat ~/.cache/notify-osd.log| tail -4}





${font Zegoe Light - U:pixelsize=24}System${font}

${offset 0}${font PizzaDude Bullets:pixelsize=12}b${font}      ${font Zegoe Light - U:pixelsize=12}Uptime: $uptime_short
   Power: ${battery_percent BAT0}%
   Mem: $mem
   Storage: ${fs_used /}

   Signal: ${wireless_link_qual eth1}%
   Ul: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s
   Dl: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s
${font}



${font Zegoe Light - U:pixelsize=24}To Do${font}

${offset 0}${font PizzaDude Bullets:pixelsize=12}b${font}   ${font Zegoe Light - U:pixelsize=12} - Phone Student Finance England
        and discuss not coming back to
        college next year
      - Get SAC peasant fund sorted out
        to help pay rent debt...
      - Actually start RBGE plot and work
        experience logs!
${font}        

[Habitual]

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${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10} {execi 30 tail -4 ~/.cache/notify-osd.log}$font

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[Carl]

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${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10} {execi 30 tail -4 ~/.cache/notify-osd.log}$font

?

nope don't worry about it

Thanks for your help ^^

[Habitual]

why tail -4 when all you wanted/needed was "the last line and then periodically check?"

tail -1 /path/to/file

[Carl]

why tail -4 when all you wanted/needed was "the last line and then periodically check?"

tail -1 /path/to/file

because the last line is blank in that file, and tail -4 was really the only option which made sense if the song title was quite long such as in remixes

[VastOne]

An easier way is to use qdbus ...

Just add this to a Conky

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${color #7D8C93}Radio Tray${font} 

${color #7D8C93}Station
${execi 15 qdbus net.sourceforge.radiotray /net/sourceforge/radiotray net.sourceforge.radiotray.getCurrentRadio}

${color #7D8C93}Artist & Song
${execi 15 qdbus net.sourceforge.radiotray /net/sourceforge/radiotray getCurrentMetaData| fold -s -w35}

This is what it displays with my Gmail/Google Reader Conky