(moved to https://github.com/orithena/infotext) Text of mpd/cpu/mem status for display via text-capable xscreensaver (e.g. "Phosphor") --- I use it on my RaspberryPi. Just save it somewhere, edit it to your needs, make it executable and configure xscreensaver to use this program as text source for screensavers like Apple ][, Phosphor, GLText, Fl…

infotext.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import mpd
import pickle

def getTimeList():
  statFile = file("/proc/stat", "r")
  timeList = statFile.readline().split(" ")[2:6]
  statFile.close()
  for i in range(len(timeList))  :
      timeList[i] = int(timeList[i])
  return timeList

def deltaTime()  :
  x = [0,0,0,0]
  try:
    f = open('/run/lock/cpuload', 'rd')
    x = pickle.load(f)
    f.close()
  except: pass
  y = getTimeList()
  try:
    f = open('/run/lock/cpuload', 'wb')
    pickle.dump(y, f)
    f.close()
  except: pass
  for i in range(len(x))  :
      y[i] -= x[i]
  return y

def cpuload():
  dt = deltaTime()
  return 100 - (dt[len(dt) - 1] * 100.00 / sum(dt))

def load():
  r = ""
  try:
    r = " ".join(file('/proc/loadavg').readline().split(" ")[0:3])
  except: pass
  return r
  
def meminfo():
  return dict([ [ b.strip(":") for b in a if len(b) > 0 and b != 'kB' ] for a in [ l.strip().split(" ") for l in file("/proc/meminfo").readlines() ] ])

print("[cpu %.2f%%  load %s]" % (cpuload(), load()))

try:
  mi = meminfo()
  print("[mem %s  free %s  cache %s]" % (mi['MemTotal'], mi['MemFree'], mi['Cached']) )
except: pass

out = []

mpc = mpd.MPDClient()
d = None
try:
  mpc.connect('localhost', 6600)
  d = dict(mpc.status().items() + mpc.currentsong().items())
  mpc.disconnect()
except:
  pass
if d is not None and d.has_key("state") and d["state"] == 'play':
  try:
    ct = int(float(d["elapsed"]))
    t = int(d["time"])
    out.append("[mpd playing #%s/%s  %02d:%02d/%02d:%02d %d%%]" % ( 
            d["song"], 
            d["playlistlength"], 
            ct/60,
            ct - ((ct/60)*60),
            t/60,
            t - ((t/60)*60),
            int(ct*100/t)
          ))
    if d.has_key("title"): out.append("  %s" % d["title"])
    if d.has_key("artist"): out.append("  %s" % d["artist"])
    if d.has_key("album"): out.append("  %s" % d["album"])
  except:
    pass
elif d is not None and d.has_key("state"):
  out.append("[mpd status: %s]" % d["state"])
else:
  out.append("[no mpd running at localhost:6600]")


if(len(out) < 8):
  out = [ i for s in [ (a,b) for a,b in zip([ "" for j in xrange(len(out)) ], out) ] for i in s ]

out += ["\n"]

for l in out:
  print( unicode(l, 'utf-8', 'ignore').encode("latin-1", 'ignore') )