to display a text from a file using conky

[anoopm101]

i have the following text in a file located in /home/anoopm101/.task

[description:"this is the text" entry:"1306682734" status:"pending" uuid:"25c54e1b-824f-52bc-4933-dfe7cda34bc7"]

i have to display on my desktop "this is the text" using conky.

please help me with the command to do it.

[SunshineFolk]

Please explain a little better what you are trying to do. You can leave out the file and where its located as I can see it from the above post , But I'm just having a little trouble understanding exactly what you are trying to do.

Heres what I'm getting from it.

So you just want conky to ONLY display the text "this is the text" on your desktop?

[anoopm101]

yes, its a file created by the taskwarrior program and from that file i want just my task to be displayed, the text in "" is an example task, what u assumed is exactly correct

[SunshineFolk]

Hmm.

Try this link ---> Text widget for Conky 1 by ~wlourf on deviantART

Then scroll down to the second comment to get the "unbroken" link to the file. I didn't try to download it from that link so I don't know if the link to the download is borken but it's worth a shot.

I don't use conky OR taskwarrior so I could be WAY off with this solution, but it is a text widget for conky, which may help out with what your doing. As for how to use it, I wouldn't know where to start, as I don't use conky...

Hope this helps!! If not, maybe I can try something else


SunshineFolk

[rrl]

i have the following text in a file located in /home/anoopm101/.task

[description:"this is the text" entry:"1306682734" status:"pending" uuid:"25c54e1b-824f-52bc-4933-dfe7cda34bc7"]

i have to display on my desktop "this is the text" using conky.

please help me with the command to do it.

If you want to display static text, in the .conkyrc file, there is a section called text, it says anything in that section gets printed to screen. I would just copy a line of text already in there, paste it to a new line, and replace the text with yours.

If you want to display dynamic text, like the results of a script, you'll need to refer to the script. Ill have to post back with more detail if that's what you want.

[anoopm101]

what i am looking for is a todo list using conky, conky using taskwarrior seems to be a little uncustomizable

[rokytnji]

From

antiX-forum - View topic - been playing with conky what are yours like

Edit: my bad. The link is dead.

for a to do list for conky.

Below is piveras code in the thread also with screenshots.

${color cyan}To Do List:
${color yellow}${exec cat 30 TODO.txt}

[SunshineFolk]

what i am looking for is a todo list using conky, conky using taskwarrior seems to be a little uncustomizabl

If you would have said a To Do list is what you were trying to do, it would have been a little more simple to find a solution for you haha

But rokytnji has got you covered ^^

Heres what his solution will give you:

From

antiX-forum - View topic - been playing with conky what are yours like

Edit: my bad. The link is dead.

for a to do list for conky.

Below is piveras code in the thread also with screenshots.

${color cyan}To Do List:
${color yellow}${exec cat 30 TODO.txt}

Good work rokytnji, I noticed you on that forum too
But that link you put isn't broken for me , Oh well. Lookin good!!


SunshineFolk