Art Alexion on 1 Jan 2009 19:46:31 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Paint an HTML in the "Background"?


On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:
> Thansk for your suggstion, Josh.    This system is how my internal music
> player system displays what song is playing.  The graphics are large images
> of the album covers.
>
> Right now, the python cgi-bin script dynamically creates the page on the fly.
> This means that if I have several computers monitoring the web page, each one
> gets a custom-generated page.
>> I'm not skilled enough to try to use some type of Java script, and the
>> application isn't critical enough to motivate me to acquire the missing
>> skills.
>>
>> Does anybody know of a simple way I can freeze the existing page in a web
>> browser until the replacement page is fully formed and rendered?

Casey,

I don't know which music player you are using, but Amarok has a script
that does just what you are trying to do.  I am in gnome now, so I
don't have the exact name.  I do remember that it wasn't very hard to
find in the first place, downloadable right from Amarok's script
manager.

Works acceptably well like a screen saver.  It renders the album art
and text with the track number, name, album, artist, etc.  You can
configure how big it is.

I recommend this because you say it isn't worth acquiring the skills
to do what want.  So here is a turnkey solution.  If you are
interested and have trouble finding it, let me know and I'll get the
details when I am working with my desktop.

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artAlexion
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