Add eww lyrics scroll widget, pinned over other windows - #9
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Renders mpdtui's -lyrics-line output (its 4-line synced-lyrics window) as a small always-on-top overlay, auto-hiding when MPD isn't playing and closable/reopenable via a button. Chose eww over conky specifically for smooth CSS transitions -- conky can only hard-redraw text each tick, no animation. - .config/eww/scripts/lyrics-listen.sh -- a deflisten (not defpoll) daemon script: runs mpdtui -lyrics-line once/sec, pushing an intermediate dimmed frame before a new current line so its opacity transition has two states to animate between (revealer was tried first but collapses its child's height, causing the whole box to visibly shrink/grow on every line change -- opacity leaves layout untouched). Also emits "visible" (only while MPD is actively [playing]) and a font-size hint that shrinks the current line for long text instead of overflowing the box's fixed width. - .config/eww/eww.yuck / eww.scss -- the widget itself. - .config/systemd/user/eww.service -- runs "eww daemon --no-daemonize" (Type=simple, not Type=forking -- that raced against eww's own self-daemonizing and caused a restart-loop) with an explicit Environment=PATH covering Homebrew (mpdtui's install location isn't on a systemd user service's default PATH). WantedBy both default.target (auto-start at login) and personal-services.target (visibility under linux-system-manager's Section 5). Removed the earlier conky-based attempt (.config/conky/conky-lyrics.conf, get-lyrics-window.sh) -- conky can't animate a text change, only hard-redraw it each tick, which wasn't smooth enough. Bumps workspace/aistuff for the accompanying dotfiles-management skill reference doc update (personal-systemd-services.md), documenting the two systemd gotchas above plus the deflisten/window-lifecycle nuance as a worked example for the next user-scope GUI daemon. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Renders mpdtui's -lyrics-line output (its 4-line synced-lyrics window) as a small always-on-top overlay, auto-hiding when MPD isn't playing and closable/reopenable via a button. Chose eww over conky specifically for smooth CSS transitions -- conky can only hard-redraw text each tick, no animation.
Removed the earlier conky-based attempt (.config/conky/conky-lyrics.conf, get-lyrics-window.sh) -- conky can't animate a text change, only hard-redraw it each tick, which wasn't smooth enough.
Bumps workspace/aistuff for the accompanying dotfiles-management skill reference doc update (personal-systemd-services.md), documenting the two systemd gotchas above plus the deflisten/window-lifecycle nuance as a worked example for the next user-scope GUI daemon.