Looking at version bumping conky - bug #117412. The bmpx USE flag depends on media-sound/bmp. Is this sparc friendly or is a bmpx use.mask required.
test plan from Roman Bogorodskiy Needed stuff: 1. dbus 2. bmpx with dbus support 3. conky with bmpx support To configure dbus one need to edit ~/.xinitrc and add such a line: dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session COMMAND where COMMAND is a command your window manager, e.g. startfluxbox, startkde, etc. then one need to: - restart X - check if dbus works: echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS should print something. If not, it's better to consult this page: http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org/site/FAQ#Running_with_D-BUS - add something like "${bmpx_artist} - ${bmpx_title}" below "TEXT" word in ~/.conkyrc file. (sample at /usr/share/doc/conky-1.3.5/conkyrc.sample.gz) - launch bmpx and start playing some track - start conky-1.3.5 (currently masked) BMPx track title and artist should appear on the screen.
Tested bmpx-0.12.9-r1 (since i'm on dbus-0.50 atm) but -r2 should be fine too so i stuck ~sparc keywords into them. Conky otoh has issues with bmpx, the track number shows fine but not the track name or artist. Sometimes they show up blank or with a few chars of mess.
Created attachment 76332 [details] conky+bmpx on sparc
Thanks Gustavo. Reported problem upstream.
Just as a side curiosity, when upgrading from -r1 (dbus-0.50) to -r2 (dbus-0.60) i had to nuke $HOME/.bmpx otherwise it would segfault on startup.
