The exaile Mini mode

Because of its being light on resources, I prefer to use Exaile over amarok. The tray icon(top-right corner) works great in making it easily accessible on all workspaces with no need to mark the window "always on visible workspace". Yet, I always wished for a smaller version of the player, as powerful as exaile, but smaller. This is what Exaile's mini-mode aims to do. It bundles the whole full screen music player into a 1-2cm display.

This mini-mode is not available by default, you will have to activate the appropriate plugin for it. Open Exaile and go to Edit -> Preferences. Activate the plugin by clicking the check box.

This will result in a mini-mode sub-category under the same Plugin option. Here, you can change various options to deal with appearance of exaile.

• How do you want the tracks to look like?
• Set the transparency level.
• What all would you want the player to show? Progress-bar, prev-next, volume etc.
• Whether you want it on all windows or not? on top or not?
• Window decoration - simple or full. Here is a catch - as far as I think, the simple mode doesn't allow you to move the player bar because of no window options, but it looks better, a minimode indeed.

Simple mode

Full Mode