You want your status message to be updated according to the music you're listening to? Thanks to D-Bus and gajim-remote it's possible.
Here are some pages that can help you depending on the music player you use:
- Amarok
NOTE: Gajim trunk will speak directly to Amarok via the MPRIS D-Bus API!
- Audacious
NOTE: Gajim trunk will speak directly to Audacious via the MPRIS D-Bus API!
see this page
- BMPx
Supported via the MPRIS D-Bus API in Gajim trunk.
- Decibel Audio Player
Built-in support for Gajim
- Exaile
see this page
- Mesk Audio Player
see this page
- Mpd (Music Player Daemon)
see GajimAndMpd
- Quodlibet
see this page
- Rhythmbox (>= 0.9.5) lacking D-Bus API support
NOTE: Gajim svn and 0.11 will speak directly to Rhythmbox via its D-Bus API, If Rhythmbox D-BUS API is disabled in your distribution, then you can use this script
- VLC
Supported via the MPRIS D-Bus API in Gajim trunk.
- XMMS
see this page
- XMMS2
NOTE: Gajim trunk will speak directly to XMMS2 via the MPRIS D-Bus API!
see this page, and if you have problems compiling it, see here
