On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Thanks. I figured date's conversion functionality probably figured into > it somewhere, but for CLI output generally invoke a konsole instance, and > that seemed rather disruptive (too big) for this sort of output, so I > wondered what you were using. And asking is easier than spending several > hours experimenting. =:^) >
Yes, I was happy to see that the GNU tools were available right in the "command" parameter. > FWIW, I don't appear to have a notify-send binary installed here, but I > do see a couple package hits. But what package provides it for you > there? (The ones I see appear to be smaller alternative implementations, > in case whatever package that normally provides it isn't installed, > tinynotify-send and sw-notify-send, the latter being a system-wide > version, presumably cross-user, plus a gentoo-specific eselect module for > the functionality, which further implies additional implementations to > select from.) > I think that notify-send came with the stock Kubuntu install. At least, I don't remember installing it separately and I cannot find it with the obvious aptitude searches. > Meanwhile, google indicates that dbus-send can provide similar > functionality with an appropriate invocation. I obviously have that > (part of dbus), so I have some choices available and experimentation to > do... =:^) > If you could do it on a hot-key without relying on Klipper, that would be best in my opinion. No popup, and no Klipper running in the background. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.