Dropbeat

Dropbeat is a GNOME shell extension that shows a cool card to control your media player.

Requires

ImageMagick (available in all distros' official repos)

Installation

Features

• Control your media player from the top bar
• View album art, track title, and artist name
• Play, pause, and skip tracks
• Works with any MPRIS player such as Firefox, Spotify, VLC, etc.
• Configurable global shortcut to toggle open the card

Current Limitations

• No shuffle, loop, or volume controls
• No seeking controls or progress bar
• Always only shows last active player in the case of multiple players

Building

Build to dist/build:

make

Launch test GNOME shell instance:

./nest-test

Install via Makefile:

make install