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Gnome schedule 2.1.1 has been released.

Get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-schedule/files/.

- gaute

A simple C++ program that detects change of ~/.plan:

(and it contains a convenient debugging function that gets the name of the inotify event as a char *)

- Gnome-schedule 2.1.0 -

Gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power
of crontab (vixie-cron, dcron) and at to manage your crontab file and
provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports
recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the
future. It is written in Python using pygtk, and has been developed,
tested and packaged for various Linux distributions.

New in this release:
Apart from fixing a number of annoying bugs (including where you couldn’t enter times above 13:49), and long awaited X support. You should now be able to set up your X applications to be run by cron and at, and as long as you are logged in they will be run. This does depend on you having you X server running on the same DISPLAY. Please note that this feature is still experimental.

Previous release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=572635

Download: https://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=112183&filename=gnome-schedule-2.1.0.tar.gz

Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gnome-schedule

For more information and screenshots see our homepage: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

I’ve published my crux ports at github:

git: git://github.com/gauteh/cruxports.git
web: http://github.com/gauteh/cruxports/tree/master

It mostly contains fixed and/or updated ports from various official and larger repos:

• rxvt-unicode – with 256 colors and packaged for nn_NO locales
• git
• libiconv
• ntfs-3g
• p5-xml-simple
• awesome

By using the experimental git driver for ports you can sync with this config:

/etc/ports/gaute.git:
# Collection by Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>

URL=git://github.com/gauteh/cruxports.git
BRANCH=master
DESTINATION=/usr/ports/gaute

put the driver in the file /etc/ports/driver/git, you might have to change the git commands to use spaces and not ‘-’. I.e.: git-clone -> git clone.

gexheres.git has been renamed to gauteh.git:

Clone url: git://github.org/gauteh/gauteh.git
Tree: http://github.com/gauteh/gauteh/tree/master

New exhereses in git://github.com/gauteh/gexheres.git:

• x11-utils/unclutter
• media-sound/cmus
• media-sound/mpeg4ip
• media-libs/libmpcdec
• media-libs/libart
• media-libs/libmodplug
• text-libs/libiconv
• sys-fs/ntfsprogs
• x11-apps/wbar
• x11-apps/wbarconf
• x11-apps/obmenu

- gaute

I have gotten alot of different bug reports and problems sent to me when people try to use gnome-schedule, and quite a few of them are actually crontab and atd problems; mostly just them not being there at all. This post tries to give you an idea about how you can figure out what is wrong; or how it is supposed to work. Exactly how to set up crontab and at differs for all distributions and they all have their own tutorials.

If something works; don’t proceed through the rest of the steps – they are meant as suggestions to solutions. And if you have it working they might break it. That means; no guarantees!

Read the rest of this entry »

X output

The X output feature for Gnome Schedule is now ready for testing, this means that you can easily schedule graphical applications without worrying about the DISPLAY variable. Gnome Schedule also checks before each run if there is a working X connection; in other words that you are logged in.

There is still needed some testing before the next version will be released and it would be great if you could try out the current development branch.

To get the sources do:
$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-schedule/trunk gnome-schedule

You can build and install it into a temporary directory by doing:
$ cd gnome-schedule/
$ ./autogen.sh –prefix=/path/to/tmp
$ make; make install

to run it from there do:
$ cd /path/to/tmp/bin
$ ./gnome-schedule

If you have any problems or suggestions file them on the gnome bugzilla. More details on how to build can be found in the README.

- gaute

There has been a review of Gnome Schedule at makeuseof.com:

[...] For those who dislike the terminal and command line interface, Gnome Schedule is the graphical equivalent of the crontab. It leverages the power of vixie-cron, dcron and at to manage your crontab file and provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. Be it scheduling a recurrent task or task that happens only once, Gnome-schedule has no problem in handling it. [...]

- gaute

A digital dice, in Cairo, gtk+ and C:

ENTER, r or a mouse click rolls
q quits

download: dice-1.tar.bz2