This is a very simple program which displays one line of text in the notification area. It reads a file (~/tmp/now-playing) every second, and displays the contents in the notification area. For best results, make sure there's no newlines in the file, and that there's not too much text. You can build it with this command: make And install it in your ~/bin with this command: make install This program is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+. This download also contains a copy of eggtrayicon by Anders Carlsson, which is licensed under the GNU LGPLv2+