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epicurious

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Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 5

estonta - VERY simple appointments system

Hello,

I made a simple appointments system , called estonta. I've made a AUR entry for it, and you can read more about it on Github. It might be too simple for some, but if you want an easy way to add dates of meetings, gigs, etc. and have them display in Conky nicely, it might be useful.

epicurious

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Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 5

Re: estonta - VERY simple appointments system

Hello,

I have been working on this relatively slowly (and sorry if this counts as a bump), but I am still updating it; I should explain more about what it does. It generates iCalendar files, so you can send an event to other people (or your phone). It only uses Bash and optionally has a YAD interface for those who like to see calendars! I think it's quite lightweight:

$ pacdep estonta-git
  estonta-git              72.00 KiB
  Exclusive dependencies:      0 B
  Shared dependencies:         0 B
  Total dependencies:          0 B ( 72.00 KiB)

I use in Conky; here's an example.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corey … stonta.png

Mod edit: replaced img tags with url tags. Please see the Code of Conduct regarding acceptable image sizes. -- WorMzy

Last edited by WorMzy (2017-02-10 10:59:24)

chickenPie4tea

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Registered: 2012-08-21

Posts: 309

Re: estonta - VERY simple appointments system

Nice, will give it a try. Like that it can use conky to display events.

Edit:
ok tried it and it's great!
I didn't use AUR, just downloaded the script and put it in my home bin folder
very good that you put comments in the script and config file so I could easily understand.

Did a test adding events in terminal and using yad gui
both were easy and worked well
added a line to my conky
Cal-Events:${execi 50 /home/dka/bin/estonta}

everything works, thankyou!

Last edited by chickenPie4tea (2017-02-10 12:52:27)

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epicurious

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Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 5

Re: estonta - VERY simple appointments system

Did a test adding events in terminal and using yad gui
both were easy and worked well
added a line to my conky
Cal-Events:${execi 50 /home/dka/bin/estonta}

everything works, thankyou!

Thank you! Although if you just use the script without switches, it will list all the past events too... if you just want upcoming ones you could create an alias in .bashrc 

alias 30days='estonta -r "now" "+30days"'

And then use that in your Conky file. I want to write it so that it can filter events within a date range, but that might have to wait awhile...

chickenPie4tea

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Registered: 2012-08-21

Posts: 309

Re: estonta - VERY simple appointments system

Thank you! for the extra conky tip

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