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1 now-playing-d
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3 NAME
4         now-playing-d - display text from stdin in the notification area.
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6 DESCRIPTION
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8         now-playind-d reads from stdin. Whenever a full new line is read, this
9         text is displayed in the notification area (replacing any text
10         now-playing-d put there before, if any).
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12         Careful not to make the lines too long for your notification area.
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14 BUILDING
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16         make
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19 INSTALLING
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21         To install to ~/bin:
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23         make install
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25         or just copy now-playing-d wherever you like
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28 USAGE
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30         Here's an example of how to make it so you can "echo" text to it from scripts:
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32         mkfifo ~/tmp/now-playing
33         while true; do cat ~/tmp/now-playing; done | now-playing-d
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35         echo 'Hello, world!' > ~/tmp/now-playing
36         sleep 2
37         echo 'another message' > ~/tmp/now-playing
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40 LICENSING
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42         This program is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+.
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44         This download also contains a copy of eggtrayicon by Anders Carlsson,
45         which is licensed under the GNU LGPLv2+