[Remind-Fans] A little script I use to put remind on the desktop

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Aug 5th 2008 at 00:13 -0000, quoth Shelagh Manton:

=>As the subject says. This was devised for xfce4 but I'm sure that the
=>guts of the script would be useful for any desktop. At least on *nix
=>OSes.
=>
=>It does have three dependencies ssed imagemagick and enscript.
=>Most are available with distro package managers but may not be
=>installed by default. ssed (super sed) might be the only one that is
=>difficult to get. 
=>
=>8< -----------------------------------------------------------
=>#!/bin/bash
=>#dailypic: make a picture for desktop of the output of remind.
=>
=>empty='s/\e\[0m/@color{default}/g
=>s/\e\[0;31m/@color{1 0 0}/
=>s/\e\[0;32m/@color{0 1 0}/
=>s/\e\[0;33m/@color{1 1 0}/
=>s/\e\[0;34m/@color{0 0 1}/
=>s/\e\[0;35m/@color{1 0 1}/
=>s/\e\[0;36m/@color{0 1 1}/
=>s/\e\[0;37m/@color{0 0 0}/
=>s/\e\[31;1m/@color{1 0 0}/
=>s/\e\[32;1m/@color{0 1 0}/
=>s/\e\[33;1m/@color{1 1 0}/
=>s/\e\[34;1m/@color{0 0 1}/
=>s/\e\[35;1m/@color{1 0 1}/
=>s/\e\[36;1m/@color{0 1 1}/
=>s/\e\[37;1m/@color{0 0 0}/'
=>
=>picture="/path/to/your/wallpapers/daily.png"
=>
=>remind | ssed "$empty" \
	 | enscript --escapes=@ -Br -fPalatino-Bold16 -q -o -\
         | convert -trim -transparent white -rotate 90 - "$picture"
=>xfdesktop
=>
=>Shelagh

How about something like:

color[0]="\e[0;31m"	# Call is red blue green or whatever
tomap[0]='1 0 0'
color[1]="\e[0;32m"
tomap[1]='0 1 0'
etc
picture=/path/to/your/wallpapers/daily.png # No quotes needed.
remind | while read line
do
    for (( ii=0; ii < ${#color[@]}; ii++ ))
    do
        tmp="$line"
	line=${tmp/${color[ii]}/@color{"${tomap[ii]}"\}}
    done
    echo "${line}"
done | enscript --escapes=@ -Br -fPalatino-Bold16 -q -o - \
     | convert -trim -transparent white -rotate 90 - $picture
xfdesktop

It'll run faster, it'll eliminate a process, and it eliminates the need 
for supersed.
    
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