Spotify Shell

Features

1. Supports following commands (same as sp client):

   • play/pause/next;
   • any other string will start a search and play the first result for a given search query;
   • feh - shows the current artwork with feh;

2. Stores history and allows navigating through it;

3. Highly customizable

Controls

Keyboard navigation (copied from awful.prompt API documentation page):

Name	Usage
CTRL+A	beginning-of-line
CTRL+B	backward-char
CTRL+C	cancel
CTRL+D	delete-char
CTRL+E	end-of-line
CTRL+J	accept-line
CTRL+M	accept-line
CTRL+F	move-cursor-right
CTRL+H	backward-delete-char
CTRL+K	kill-line
CTRL+U	unix-line-discard
CTRL+W	unix-word-rubout
CTRL+BACKSPACE	unix-word-rubout
SHIFT+INSERT	paste
HOME	beginning-of-line
END	end-of-line
CTRL+R	reverse history search, matches any history entry containing search term.
CTRL+S	forward history search, matches any history entry containing search term.
CTRL+UP	ZSH up line or search, matches any history entry starting with search term.
CTRL+DOWN	ZSH down line or search, matches any history entry starting with search term.
CTRL+DELETE	delete the currently visible history entry from history file. This does not delete new commands or history entries under user editing.

Installation

1. Install sp - CLI client for Spotify for Linux:

   $ sudo git clone https://gist.github.com/fa6258f3ff7b17747ee3.git ~/dev/
   $ sudo ln -s ~/dev/sp /usr/local/bin/

   Check if it works by running sp help.

2. Get an 'id' and 'secret' from developer.spotify.com and paste it in the header of the sp (SP_ID and SP_SECRET) - this enables search feature.

3. Clone this repo under ~/.config/awesome/

4. Require spotify-shell at the beginning of rc.lua:

   local spotify_shell = require("awesome-wm-widgets.spotify-shell.spotify-shell")

5. Add a shortcut which will show Spotify Shell widget:

   awful.key({ modkey,        }, "d", function () spotify_shell.launch() end, {description = "spotify shell", group = "music"}),

6. It uses icon from Papirus Icon Theme. So you should either install this icon theme, or download an icon you want to use and provide path to it in spotify-shell.lua.