[Remind-Fans] Desktop calendar

[Shelagh Manton]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 22:48 -0800, Girish V wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I output my daily calendar to a file and simply cat it onto the desktop using
> conky (a less resource hungry) system monitor. This is a very simple solution I came across. 
> 
> Girish
 This does indeed look like a good app. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
SOM
 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Shelagh Manton <oneida at tpg.com.au>
> To: Remind <remind-fans at whatexit.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:14:30 AM
> Subject: [Remind-Fans] Desktop calendar
> 
> I've managed to cook up a little script which I use to put a daily
> calendar on the desktop using gnome sessions. I told the desktop
> background to look to remind.png and sessions to run this:
> remind -p | rem2ps -l -m A4 -shd 9 -se 9 -st 11 -b 2 -olt 0 | convert
> -border 5x5 -bordercolor red -rotate 90 - remind.png
> 
> I had to %"%" the items in my todo list so they didn't clutter up the
> calendar. I was hoping to make a daily picture using the output or
> remind to enscript and then convert. However all the formatting notation
> that makes it readable in the terminal also came through in the list I
> created. So it was ugly. There doesn't seem to be a remind -p option
> that will do anything less than a month?
> 
> So two questions:
> 1) Has anyone devised a way to pipe the output of remind through some
> utility to make it a picture? How did you do it?
> I did this;
> remind | enscript -o - -Br -f Palatino-Bold19 | convert -border 5x5
> -bordercolor red -rotate 90 - remind.png 
> 
> Maybe there's some way to tell enscript to ignore the \033 and all that.
> 
> 2) If I use the month calendar picture for my desktop picture I know
> there would be a way to highlight today's day with a SPECIAL command.
> Would somebody be able to give me an idea of how to do this? 
> 
> Shelagh
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