Rhythmbox Fullscreen Plugin

What does it do?

This python plugin gives you a stylish full screen window usable for parties etc.:

• Pulsating hover effect
• Album art
• Smoothly animated progress bar
• Control: Play/pause/skip
• Scrolling by cursor position
• Queued tracks merged
• Full screen - or maximized window via the plugin preferences

Then activate it and press the new Full Screen button appearing at Rhythmbox's toolbar.

Ubuntu package

Fossfreedom is maintaining a PPA on Launchpad with the latest release. Click the link below to read instructions about adding PPA.

ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins

Local-User installation:

First, run this:

git clone https://github.com/benjaoming/rhythmbox-fullscreen
cd rhythmbox-fullscreen

Then, run the install script according to your Rhythmbox version.

For rhythmbox versions 2.96 to 2.99.1:

./install.sh --rb2

For rhythmbox version 3.0.1 and later:

./install.sh

Global-User (all-users) installation:

First, run this:

git clone https://github.com/benjaoming/rhythmbox-fullscreen
cd rhythmbox-fullscreen

Then, run the install script according to your Rhythmbox version.

For rhythmbox versions 2.96 to 2.99.1:

./install.sh -g --rb2

For rhythmbox version 3.0.1 and later:

./install.sh -g

Known issues

Reports say that using Compiz on a 64-bit Virtualbox will trouble the progress bars and scrolling. However, using windowed mode (via the plugin preferences) should fix this.

Usage

• Activate the plugin.
• To enter full screen mode, find the menu item View->Full Screen.
• ...or simply hit F12

Technical stuff

The plugin uses custom drawn Cairo widgets in a DrawableArea and idle callbacks for animations. Everything is therefore vector graphics.

If you find an error, please run Rhythmbox from terminal with the following option:

rhythmbox -D RhythmboxFullscreen

Credits

Thanks to fossfreedom for restructuring the plugin, packaging for Debian and tracking down bugs.