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A glanceable now-playing card: album art, title and artist, progress bar. Read-only, from any MPRIS media player over D-Bus. No transport controls.

now-playing scene capture

now-playing reads whatever your MPRIS-capable player (Spotify, mpv, browsers, ...) is playing, over the session D-Bus. It is read-only: there are no play/pause/skip buttons, because clicks are not yet forwarded to plugins. The accent color is sampled from the album art.

Only font_family and italic affect the text; each line's size is derived from the card geometry, so font_size and font_weight have no effect. This widget centers itself and does not read content_halign / content_valign (it does honor debug_border). See the widgets overview.

Properties

keytypedefaultmeaning
layoutstring`"compact"``compact` (a chip: cover + title/artist + progress) or `star` (a large centered cover with a blurred-cover backdrop). Only `star` is special-cased; any other value renders `compact`.
fetch_remote_artbool`false`Allow fetching `http(s)://` cover art (e.g. Spotify). Off = a locked screen makes no network request; `file://` covers still decode locally.

every key is optional; omit it and the default applies. misspelled keys are silently ignored, so if a setting seems to do nothing, check the spelling against this table. colors are 0.0–1.0 float arrays.