So I have had a bit of a “mod session” today; I wanted to get embedded terminal windows working in my desktop using Compiz – after which i decided to see what mod’s i can get for Rhythmbox (my music player de jour).
Now Rhythmbox doesnt particularly make it easy for users to add their own plugins via the GUI, so you will need to do it via the terminal / CLI. In this example, I will be installing the “Jump to playing” plugin for Rhythmbox (download here jump-to-playing-0.3.1.tar.gz ).
First, download the file to your standard directory. Mine is /home/Sam/Downloads . Then, fire open a CLI / Terminal window and change directory to where you downloaded the file to, i.e.
cd /home/Sam/Downloads
Now, you will need to extract the .tar.gz file using a command like below:
tar -zxvf jump-to-playing-0.3.1.tar.gz
In situations like the above, tab complete is your best friend. You will now have a folder created with files inside at the location /home/Sam/Downloads/jump-to-playing . You now need to get these files into Rhythmbox in order to get the plugins to work. Fortunately, Rhythmbox in this sense has been kind and made it fairly simple. All you need to do, is copy the folder and all its contents to /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins using a command such as:
sudo cp -R jump-to-playing/ /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/
This command needs to be ran when your current directory is the Downloads folder. Once you have done this, Close/re-open Rhythmbox and go to “Edit -> Plugins” and voila, your new plugin is available to use.
Sam
