Hi, I did not get Your script working. I am getting a "convert: Postscript delegate failed `/tmp/magick-XXB0tWqO': No such file or directory.", so I think it is a bug on my machine. However:
I am also working on a script that puts Remind on a Xfce4 desktop using RMagick (ImageMagick from Ruby). (It will need some modifications to run on other desktops). The result so far can be seen at http://home1.stofanet.dk/mh.homepage/files/screenshot.png I run it as an autostarted application and as a cron job at midnight: In: crontab -e Insert: @midnight $HOME/bin/xfremind Where $HOME/bin/xfremind is where I placed the script. The script requires remind, RMagick http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ (and everything RMagick depends on. On Debian, the package is named librmagick-ruby). The script looks like: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'RMagick' BACKGROUND_PICKTURE="background.png" #Place it at ~/.config/xfremind/background.png NEGATE_CALENDAR = true screen_width = 1280 screen_height = 1024 OUTPUT_DIR="#{ENV['HOME']}/.config/xfremind" unless test ?d,OUTPUT_DIR Dir.mkdir(OUTPUT_DIR) end Dir.chdir(OUTPUT_DIR) if Object.const_defined?(:BACKGROUND_PICKTURE) && File.exist?(BACKGROUND_PICKTURE) background = Magick::ImageList.new(BACKGROUND_PICKTURE) else fill = Magick::GradientFill.new(0, 0, 0, 0, "#8888bb", "#333399") background = Magick::Image.new(screen_width, screen_height, fill) background = background.swirl(-360) end system('remind -m -b1 -p ~/.reminders | rem2ps -sthd 14 -se 10 -i -l -e > calendar.ps') # The command that generates the postscript calendar. calendar = Magick::ImageList.new("calendar.ps") calendar.rotate!(90) if Object.const_defined?(:NEGATE_CALENDAR) && (NEGATE_CALENDAR) calendar = calendar.negate wallpaper = background.composite(calendar, Magick::SouthEastGravity, Magick::ScreenCompositeOp) else wallpaper = background.composite(calendar, Magick::SouthEastGravity, Magick::MultiplyCompositeOp) end wallpaper.write('wallpaper.png') # This file should be selected as wallpaper. system('killall -USR1 xfdesktop') # This reloads the XFCE4 desktop. Kind Regards Martin Hansen On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:13:18 +1000 Shelagh Manton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the subject says. This was devised for xfce4 but I'm sure that the > guts of the script would be useful for any desktop. At least on *nix > OSes. > > It does have three dependencies ssed imagemagick and enscript. > Most are available with distro package managers but may not be > installed by default. ssed (super sed) might be the only one that is > difficult to get. > > 8< ----------------------------------------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > #dailypic: make a picture for desktop of the output of remind. > > empty='s/\e\[0m/@color{default}/g > s/\e\[0;31m/@color{1 0 0}/ > s/\e\[0;32m/@color{0 1 0}/ > s/\e\[0;33m/@color{1 1 0}/ > s/\e\[0;34m/@color{0 0 1}/ > s/\e\[0;35m/@color{1 0 1}/ > s/\e\[0;36m/@color{0 1 1}/ > s/\e\[0;37m/@color{0 0 0}/ > s/\e\[31;1m/@color{1 0 0}/ > s/\e\[32;1m/@color{0 1 0}/ > s/\e\[33;1m/@color{1 1 0}/ > s/\e\[34;1m/@color{0 0 1}/ > s/\e\[35;1m/@color{1 0 1}/ > s/\e\[36;1m/@color{0 1 1}/ > s/\e\[37;1m/@color{0 0 0}/' > > picture="/path/to/your/wallpapers/daily.png" > > remind | ssed "$empty" | enscript --escapes=@ -Br -fPalatino-Bold16 > -q -o - | convert -trim -transparent white -rotate 90 - "$picture" > xfdesktop > > Shelagh _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
