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Ian Cook
Second for first is wrong. This post can’t be countered
Jordan Barnes
Third for Debian Stable + Xfce is maximum comfy.
Brandon Sullivan
I'm working on a script that opens or reloads specified document in mupdf. It that can be used in 1) Makefiles for pdf, for example INPUT=in.md OUTPUT=out.pdf PANDOCFLAGS=-V geometry:margin=1in
2) Terminal, to open the file quickly. I have the script aliased as mup for quicker use. #!/bin/bash
if [[ "$#" -ne 1 ]]; then echo 'USAGE: mupdf_open_or_reload.sh ' exit 1 fi
# get filename w/o extension filename=$(basename "$1")
# get $PID of existing instance PID=$(pgrep -u $USER -xf "mupdf.*$filename") if [[ -z $PID ]]; then # start mupdf, wait for the window to be created mupdf "$1" & disown sleep 0.1 #PID=$! # make window visible in case it got stuck under other windows, adjust to screen height #xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --pid $PID) key H xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --name "$filename") key H else # make window visible in case it got stuck under other windows #xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --pid $PID) xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --name "$filename") kill -s HUP $PID fi
There are three issues with the script: 1) windowraise doesn't seem to work on KDE and I don't want to use activate or focus, as it'd make no sense to my use case. 2) I'm using way too many tools, I feel like it could be improved significantly. You can see the 3 commented lines I wanted to use instead of xdotool search, but for some reason they don't work with mupdf. 3) sleep 0.1 is just dumb, it may or may not work I'm looking for directions on how to fix / improve it.
David Carter
I'm trying to make Conky display the number of unread messages in my email inbox. I have a Conky object that represents that number, and I can make it display "0 unread messages", "1 unread messages", "2 unread messages", etc. What I would like is to make it say "message" instead of "messages" when there is only one. That is quite a common occurrence, and the poor grammar is not very aesthetic.
Conky allows you to run Lua scripts from within the configuration file that can do processing on Conky objects, and I could generate the correct output that way, but I do not know how to feed it back to Conky. The Conky documentation suggests writing directly to the screen from the Lua script using Cairo, but Conky will not compile with that feature enabled.
Conky also includes an object that displays the output of any program, but I don't think that Lua scripts run this way have access to Conky objects, and thus there is so simple way for such a program to know the number of unread messages. If it was possible to pass a conky object to a script as input that would solve my problem, but I have not been able to figure out how to do that.
It seems that I can either get the necessary info into a script but not out of it, or vice versa. Does anybody know what I should do?
Robert Brown
This, freetards are not based. Fuck freetards, acidic fucks. Glad there are people like you who speak the truth.
Gabriel Hughes
while no mupdf window; sleep; done
Liam Lopez
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