Get Tomboy Notes into Conky

[pt123]

Well, to update the note automatically I placed the following option in my conky:

${execi 900 ~/.scripts/exportTomboyNote.py}
(900 secondes => 15minutes!)

However, every times it does update, tomboy is lunch, and when already lunch the log file become empty.
Is there a way, for the script to be fetching the information without lunching tomboy, and to fetch the information, when tomboy is open?

One way to get around this is have Tomboy running in the panel as an applet, which I wind is useful. It neatly hides away as shown in the above screenshot.

Or you can encase the above script in a bash script which will test if Tomboy is running.

#!/bin/sh

if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep "tomboy" > /dev/null
then
    #tomboy is running run the script 
 python exportTomboyNote.py
else
    #not running just cat the exported tasks text file
    cat exported_tasks.txt
    exit
fi

[uzi09]

i just decided to have a nice little text file which conky just displays:

${color slate grey}To Do:
${color}${head /home/uzair/.tasks 30 20}

and if i ever need to add a task, it's as simiple as:

echo "1) Save the world" >> .tasks

to remove, just edit the file and delete the line

i guess i never got into using tomboy cuz it required too much. i think note taking should be super quick

[pt123]

But then it is cumbersome to delete, I use Tomboy for other stuff so managing tasks through it is effective for me.

I have also wrote a small python script that take completed tasks and place it in another text file so Conky can distinguish the complete & incomplete tasks.

Here is the other tutorial about getting your Google Calendar into Conky

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=818053

[sweetthdevil]

One way to get around this is have Tomboy running in the panel as an applet, which I wind is useful. It neatly hides away as shown in the above screenshot.

Or you can encase the above script in a bash script which will test if Tomboy is running.

#!/bin/sh

if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep "tomboy" > /dev/null
then
    #tomboy is running run the script 
 python exportTomboyNote.py
else
    #not running just cat the exported tasks text file
    cat exported_tasks.txt
    exit
fi

Thanks, but could you please be a little bit specific on how to integrate the code?

[pt123]

Thanks, but could you please be a little bit specific on how to integrate the code?

rather than running this

${execi 900 ~/.scripts/exportTomboyNote.py}

in conky like you wanted to (in your earlier post
run this

${execi 900 ~/.scripts/checkIfTomboyOpenThenExportTomboyNote.sh}

That checkIfTomboyOpenThenExportTomboyNote.sh is the above script I wrote, which checks if Tomboy is open before calling the export python script.

[sweetthdevil]

Alright, sorry to be such an idiot, but I do not know understand the code, so I am asking,

I create the file, in my folder ~./scripts gave it the right to execute, close tomboy to check if working; and obviously something is wrong

"cat: exported_tasks.txt: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type"

What should I do?

[pt123]

"cat: exported_tasks.txt: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type"

What should I do?

Is looking for the file called exported_tasks.txt in the directory where this script is.

You need to change that line to

cat /path/to/exported_tasks.txt

it is where the initial script saves your tomboy tasks to,

Here is the script more tailored to what you are after

#!/bin/sh

if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep "tomboy" > /dev/null
then
    #tomboy is running run the script 
 python exportTomboyNote.py
else
    #not running just cat the exported tasks text file
   # do nothing
fi
cat /path/to/exported_tasks.txt

[sweetthdevil]

Many thanks, works great now, but just to make sure I understand.

Now when Conky is going to start, the "checkIfTomboyOpenThenExportTomboyNote.sh"is going to run, if tomeboy is running then the other script is going to fetch the information, but if tomboy is not running, are the information going to be fetch?

[pt123]

but if tomboy is not running, are the information going to be fetch?

yep it will fetch the notes from the last successful fetch by "cat-ing" (reading it) that saved file.

[sweetthdevil]

Little trouble though, when I do like that, both tomboy note and GoogleCalendar got double information.

See attach picture.