Topic: Images in Conky (specifically rhythmbox album art)
i've been looking for this for a while, and thought others might be too, so i thought i'd give a quick run down on what i'm doing.

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alright, first off, you gotta grab the conky source (http://sourceforge.net/projects/conky/files/), then extract it, ./configure it, with "--enable-imlib2" (source), then make and install it.
from there, install conkyRhythmbox by kaivalagi from this post (it has the album art option in it)
once everything's set, stick something like this in your .conkyrc:
${offset 69}${font AvantGardeLTMedium:size=10}${exec rhythmbox-client --print-playing-format %tt}
${offset 69}$color1${exec rhythmbox-client --print-playing-format %ta}$font${exec ret}
${exec cp "`conkyRhythmbox --datatype=CA | sed -e 's/\\\//g'`" /home/jack/.album}${image /home/jack/.album -p 0,2 -s 64x64}the last line is the important stuff. it copies the cached album art that rhythmbox uses to a static file that conky loads with the $image tag. you'll probably wanna stick in an "imlib_cache_size 0" in there as well so it doesn't cache the file.
this can work with any player really, as long as you can find the current song's album art location.
special thanks to kaivalagi and whoever did the conky.wikia page.
hope you find it useful.

