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## Taskfer

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### Re: Taskfer

by golinux » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:24 pm

I played with this last night and didn't have any success. Rather than stew in frustration at my limitations, I'm just going to uninstall. Sorry to have bothered you.
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### Re: Taskfer

by fsmithred » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:00 am

No problem. I thought it was a good idea, and some of the work was already done before you asked. And now, there's a new and sexier taskfer-notify. Here it is, if anyone wants to use it. If you want email notification, set the To_address and Subject variables at the top of the script. If you don't want the desktop notification, change notify="yes" to "no". It will use mutt or /usr/bin/mail. One of those must be configured to send mail out.
https://gist.github.com/fsmithred/8816746

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### Re: Taskfer

by golinux » Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:51 am

Glad it wasn't a waste of your time. Maybe someday you'll wrap taskfer up in a nice GUI with a bow on it!!
Wait . . . hooray!! I just discovered the gkrellm-reminder plugin. It even will play music to remind me! Seems to work OK but will take a few days to test events.
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### Re: Taskfer

by nadir » Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:08 pm

> fsmithred wrote:
> Code: Select all
>   `$ todo-fsr -v
>   Taskfer/todo 0.05
>   `
> Console mode is the only mode in the newer version. I got rid of the popup calendar.

Lol.
Looks like i am rather old-school.
I use (or used) taskfer/todo in a very easy way (I add tasks and get informed which one are there for the week to follow, that's all).
PS/btw: If you like (if it ain't too much work), put the README in the how-to section (Not sure if there are others like me, but i often read in forums, but seldom in documentation. Yes, it is a fault, but it's the way that it is).
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### Re: Taskfer

by golinux » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:38 pm

> nadir wrote:PS/btw: If you like (if it ain't too much work), put the README in the how-to section (Not sure if there are others like me, but i often read in forums, but seldom in documentation. Yes, it is a fault, but it's the way that it is).

Maybe it could also be put on the refracta site documentation section?
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### Re: Taskfer

by golinux » Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:55 am

Update . . . the gkrellm-reminder plugin is working perfectly on both squeeze and wheezy. Does everything I need. Have a timer every 5 days that will continue indefinitely. Music notification is cool. Only 'problem' is that the music was looping until I found the --no-loop command for vlc.
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### Re: Taskfer

by fsmithred » Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:46 pm

Oy. The amd64 version of refracta (wheezy) has an old version of taskfer on it. Not as old as the one nadir is using, but not the newest. The i386 iso has the newest version, 0.06. If you need to get the deb for that, it's available at my github -
https://github.com/fsmithred/taskfer
I'll make the readme available as suggested.

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### Re: Taskfer

by nadir » Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:25 pm

Thanks, fsmithred, i just saw it.
golinux: if you like give more details. As of now i never found a good use for gkrellm or conky (both look ok to me, slightly leet, but in the end i never know what to do with them). Not necessarily here, about a todo-reminder, but about gkrellm in general.
I will try to give todo/taskfer a new shot as soon as possible, but not that soon. I am not too happy with osmo.
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### Re: Taskfer

by golinux » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:04 am

> nadir wrote:golinux: if you like give more details. As of now i never found a good use for gkrellm or conky (both look ok to me, slightly leet, but in the end i never know what to do with them). Not necessarily here, about a todo-reminder, but about gkrellm in general.

I just installed gkrellm for the heck of it but it is proving useful. For one, it reads the temp of my nvidia card which the gnome-sensors-applet has refused to do on squeeze at least. It has a stopwatch-style timer that starts with a click if you want to know how long it takes to do something. It shows uptime without have to open an app or terminal. And of course, the reminder function is super! There are probably other useful plugins out there too. I also installed conky briefly but quickly discovered it is not as easy to configure as gkrellm so I gave up on it. There are also some interesting skins for gkrellm and I could probably create my own as I am usually pretty comfortable doing stuff like that.
On the home front . . . it didn't get above freezing today and there is a dusting of white on the ground. I have not stepped out the door all day and may not tomorrow either. This really sucks . . .
(Yeah, I'm a wimp . . . )
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### Re: Taskfer

by golinux » Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:12 am

One interesting quirk with gkrellm . . . none of the transparent themes work properly. BitJam over on the Mepis forum came up with a solution. This needs to go into the ~/.config/autostart/ directory:

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  `[Desktop Entry]
  Encoding=UTF-8
  Version=0.1.0
  Type=Application
  Name=Set Background Image
  Comment=Set the background image with feh so pseudo-transparency works
  Exec=feh --bg-fill <path to BG image>
  OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
  StartupNotify=false
  Terminal=false
  Hidden=false`

It's working properly now (and looks gorgeuos)!
And one other thing . . . no bloody scalp since I got the reminder working. YEA!
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