Howto: Music album covers in Thunar Nautilus and everywhere!

**breakolami** · October 2nd, 2009

Hello

I try to install avatar factory but install not work

In terminal sudo ./install but have error message

cp: ne peut évaluer `./avatar-factory.1': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

Can't find avarat-factory.1

What to do

thanks and sorry my english is not good

**Gourgi** · October 2nd, 2009

Originally Posted by breakolami

Hello

I try to install avatar factory but install not work

In terminal sudo ./install but have error message

Can't find avarat-factory.1

What to do

thanks and sorry my english is not good

you can install the .deb version if you want.

Code:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28183014/avatar-factory-0.8.deb
sudo dpkg -i avatar-factory-0.8.deb

**Sharaazad** · November 10th, 2009

Originally Posted by Yuzem

The music widget (support drag and drop):

How to obtain this effect (the second one)?
I can't figure it out

**Nonno Bassotto** · November 10th, 2009

IIRC drag an album cover over the album widget.

**Sharaazad** · November 11th, 2009

I don't know how to start the music widget... i use avatar-factory --widget but nothing happens

Second question:
How did you remove the menubar in nautilus?
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/7...toryfg3lk3.png

edit:
well, i created my avatars with the "widget" option enabled. Now when i click on a launcher a "music_widget.desktop" appear on my desktop.If i launch it, the last launcher used before is launched. If i drag and drop one of the other launcher on it,then the music_widget dont'change.

**Yuzem** · November 12th, 2009

Originally Posted by Sharaazad

Second question:
How did you remove the menubar in nautilus?
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/7...toryfg3lk3.png

I use globar menu bar

Originally Posted by Sharaazad

well, i created my avatars with the "widget" option enabled. Now when i click on a launcher a "music_widget.desktop" appear on my desktop.If i launch it, the last launcher used before is launched. If i drag and drop one of the other launcher on it,then the music_widget dont'change.

There is no need to create the avatars with the option enabled, you can turn it on and off any time you want. There are to modes for the music widget.

In the simpler mode the widget will change every time you click on an avatar and you can drag and drop avatars to add them to the playlist instead of replacing it.
For this you only need to add:

Code:

music_widget=yes

To:

Code:

~/.avatar-factory/grabbers/music

You can set this from the gui.
You can read:
avatar-factory -g music --help

For The second mode you need to run:

Code:

avatar-factory --widget

This is exactly as before with the difference that the widget will be hidden if the player isn't running.

Ok, I just tried and it seems that there is a problem with the drag and drop functionality. I don't know if it is a problem with Karmic or a bug in avatar-factory. I will check it.

**Yuzem** · November 27th, 2009

The problem with drag and drop has been fixed. If you don't want to wait the following should work:

Code:

sudo gedit $(which avatar-factory)

Line 229 should be:

Code:

DND[$((++num))]=$1

Change it to:

Code:

DND+=("$1")

Thats all.

**R2D2!** · December 7th, 2009

Hey, I found a solution for the nameless .desktop in Nautilus.

Instead of leaving it empty, just use a non-breaking space (#xA0). Using a common space (#x20) doesn't work.

Also, the --icon-size seems to be broken in Karmic, due to ~/.nautilus/metafiles/ been moved to ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/

—Ilhuıtemoc