Notes

Notes

Simple script to keep pieces of text

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#! /bin/bash # -*- mode: sh -*- # # Simple notes # Author: Victor Ananjevsky <ananasik@gmail.com>, 2010 # function show_note () { [[ -e /tmp/notes.lock ]] && return touch /tmp/notes.lock yad --text-info --show-uri --geometry=400x200-0-0 --name="notes" --window-icon="text-editor" \ --title=$"Notes" --button="gtk-save:0" --button="gtk-close:1" \ --editable --filename=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/notes > /tmp/.notes [[ $? -eq 0 ]] && mv /tmp/.notes ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/notes rm -f /tmp/notes.lock } export -f show_note mkdir -p ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache} touch ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/notes exec yad --notification --text=$"Text notes" --image="text-editor" --command "sh -c show_note"

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: alzingr...@gmail.com

Victor, First of all, thank you !

It is so great to work with such a nice tool. In the code above, I wonder what is the usual contents of the $XDG_CACHE_HOME. On my Ubuntu ( 10.10 ), it is void.

Can I use another location instead of that value ?

Thanks and greetings from France

Jean-michel, Nemours, France

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

yes, of course. fill free to change this example as you wish. this script just demonstrate how to use functions as a supply commands for yad.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: alzingr...@gmail.com

Hi Victor,

I have added the line "export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp" just before the show_note function description. But I still have a problem at launch: "sh: show_note: not found"

Where is the "--command" parameter described on the internet ?

Thanks for your help

Jean-michel, Nemours, France

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

are 'sh' is a symlink to 'bash'? if not, use --command "bash -c show_note" parameter instead

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: alzingr...@gmail.com

OK. I'll try tomorrow. Thanks Jean-michel

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: alzingr...@gmail.com

Hi Victor, Fine. The "bash" works. I had to suppress the "--show-uri" parameter because of the following error : "Unable parse command line: Unknown option --show-uri" It now works but the data are not saved when clicking on the "Save" button. The notes are void when I click on the top icon. Do I have to break to carry on working with my terminal and thus lose the benefit of the show_notes ?

Thanks Jean-michel, Nemours, FRANCE

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

check that the main filename for notes ($XDG_CACHE_HOME/notes) and temporary (/tmp/.notes) are not the same name

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: alzingr...@gmail.com

My XDG value contains "home/g2a/.cache" so they are different. I give up for the moment

Thanks

Jean-michel

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: geoffrey...@gmail.com

Works well, I like this, only needs this small change to stop it being stuck to the one location. Change code so that it follows the mouse if the tray is anywhere other than the bottom right corner of the screen.

yad --text-info --show-uri --geometry=400x200"+`getcurpos | tr " " "+"`" --name="notes" --window-icon="text-editor" \

Geoffrey