MPD Now Playing in Tmux Status bar

                                                                                                                       image showing MPD now playing in tmux status bar

 

Firstly grab this shell script, make it executable and drop it in  ~/scripts/ directory or anywhere you choose

edit the script mpc current / mpc status -h flag with your own MPD servers hostname or I.P address

then simply add this to your ~/.tmux.conf

 set -g status-left " MPD: #[fg=colour255]#(~/scripts/xarchmpdnp1)"

edit the path to wherever you saved script too

                                                                                              same only this script shows most recent archlinux news item

The news item  requires python-feedparser as we are grabbing the item via RSS feed to show in tmux bar just follow above steps only replacing scripts

 

 set -g status-left " News: #[fg=colour255]#(~/scripts/anews.py)"