todo list widget awesome3

p1mps · 2010-03-12 20:39:08

Hello to all,

i would like to write a widget that can list me some todo list maybe using the naughty library.Anyone would like to help or suggest me? Other approaches to do this? I would like to implement it in my rc.lua, without using external applications or language.

Thanks

ruffedgz · 2010-03-12 22:02:33

When you say 'widget', do you mean the widget layer on Compiz or something else?

I could see something like this be done by using 'conky' to let it read in a file as your 'to-do list' and it will always be on your desktop.

Here is the Conky website: http://conky.sourceforge.net/
You can get this app from Arch's repo: pacman -Ss conky

Just an idea

alterecco · 2010-03-13 00:41:38

If you use the following as a base it should be quite easy to hack it for your needs.

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Anrxcs_OrgMode_Widget

What you might want to do is have some widget in your wibox that displays a naughty notification on mouse enter, and destroys it on mouse exit. This notification can then be populated with any content you like; I imagine you would want to pull some entries from a text file (which can be done using lua's builting io). If you look through the wiki you should be able to find enough exampels and hack something together.

Last edited by alterecco (2010-03-13 00:42:05)

samuele.mattiuzzo · 2010-03-16 11:04:30

ruffedgz wrote:

When you say 'widget', do you mean the widget layer on Compiz or something else?

he means widgets in awesome wm

p1mps · 2010-03-17 00:04:38

I've done my widget but i can display the text on my status bar.

This is the screenshot:

As u can see the bar with my TODO appear on the upper right corner but there isn't any name displayed on the status bar.

this is the code on my rc.lua that create the widget:

myorgwidget = widget({type = "textbox"})


--todo
  local todo = nil
    local offset = 0

    function remove_todo()
        if todo ~= nil then
            naughty.destroy(todo)
            calendar = nil
            offset = 0
        end
    end

    function add_todo(inc_offset)
        local save_offset = offset
        remove_todo()
        offset = save_offset + inc_offset
        local cal = get_agenda()
        todo = naughty.notify({
            text = string.format('<span font_desc="%s">%s</span>', "terminus", cal),
            timeout = 0, hover_timeout = 0.5,
            width = 160,
        })
    end

-- change clockbox for your clock widget (e.g. mytextclock)
    myorgwidget:add_signal("mouse::enter", function()
      add_todo(0)
    end)
 myorgwidget:add_signal("mouse::leave", remove_todo)

     myorgwidget:buttons({
        button({ }, 4, function()
            add_todo(-1)
        end),
        button({ }, 5, function()
            add_todo(1)
        end),
    })





--TODO
vicious.register(myorgwidget,get_agenda,"<span> TODO </span>") 

mywibox[s].widgets = {
        {
            mylauncher,
            mytaglist[s],
            mypromptbox[s],
            layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
        },
        mylayoutbox[s],
--      myorgwidget,
        mytextclock,
        --wifiwidget,
        mpdwidget,
       --myorgwidget,
     myorgwidget,

        s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
        mytasklist[s],
        layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
    }

Any advice?

Last edited by p1mps (2010-03-17 00:30:02)

alterecco · 2010-03-17 02:27:27

if you actually want to use

vicious.register(myorgwidget,get_agenda,"<span> TODO </span>")

then you would need to use the vicious library.

As far as I can see you would get text if you removed that line and added this instead

myorgwidget.text = "<span> TODO </span>"

p1mps · 2010-03-17 09:57:06

It worked . Thank you for the help. If anyone is interested on the whole code i can release it

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#1 2010-03-12 20:39:08

todo list widget awesome3

#2 2010-03-12 22:02:33

Re: todo list widget awesome3

#3 2010-03-13 00:41:38

Re: todo list widget awesome3

#4 2010-03-16 11:04:30

Re: todo list widget awesome3

#5 2010-03-17 00:04:38

Re: todo list widget awesome3

#6 2010-03-17 02:27:27

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#7 2010-03-17 09:57:06

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