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update the wallpaper with my todo list
We can perhaps manufacture an image listing all my todos, which would then be setup as wallpaper.
I would personally love it.
You can use conky to show arbitrary text output on the desktop, we should probably include a tutorial/example for that.
@christf would be nice if you could share your config, not everybody should have to set this up by themselves, even if it's just duct taping software together
sure. I do two things:
- once in a while write a temporary file containing the todo I want it to show using cron
- using conky I write the content of this file to my desktop.
This approach means I can filter and enrich the data using my cronjob, which may contain something like
todoman list --category needs_computer
todoman list |grep urgent
This is my conkyrc
use_xft yes
xftfont LiberationSans:size=10
xftalpha 0.1
text_buffer_size 2048
override_utf8_locale yes
update_interval 600
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
out_to_ncurses no
out_to_console no
alignment top_left
minimum_size 235 0
default_bar_size 0 4
gap_x 50
gap_y 50
short_units yes
pad_percents 0
top_name_width 10
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
use_spacer right
color0 White
color1 Ivory
color2 Ivory2
color3 Ivory3
color4 Tan1
color5 Tan2
color6 Gray
color7 AntiqueWhite2
color8 DarkSlateGray
color9 Black
TEXT
${voffset 10}${font Arial:bold:size=9.5}${color4}Aufgaben ${color8} ${hr 2}
${color2}${execi 2 cat /tmp/calendars/default}
I'll leave this open until we have docs for users to do this using conky.
I don't think is makes sense to make changes to todoman for this, but I'm really open to having docs for how to achieve this using conky. PRs are welcome. :)
I'm configuring conky with pimutils tools. Since I'm doing it for myself I can use it as an example. I will submit a PR with the steps for a basic ductape-like configuration in the near future, so any indication is appreciated.
