Comments on: Update Pidgin IM status on Ubuntu using cron

By: Can't get DBUS data for automatic statuschange of pidgin | Q&A System

Can't get DBUS data for automatic statuschange of pidgin | Q&A System — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:54:24 +0000

[...] I’m producing utilization of the script dependent for the run posted here: Update pidgin standing producing utilization of cron [...]

By: Change Your Skype Mood Text In Linux With Python | Projects Blog

Change Your Skype Mood Text In Linux With Python | Projects Blog — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:49:49 +0000

[...] The first script, skype_mood.py, is a generic script. The second script imports the first one, grabs the relevant information from WDLXTV’s dashboard and if media is playing or paused, it will display the name or file name of the media as your mood status text in Skype. I had difficulty passing basic authentication credentials (urllib’s password manager or adding an authentication header) to my WDLXTV so I decided to remove the authentication altogether. If you want to run this with cron, you will need to configure some extra things detailed here. [...]

By: Earl Ruby

Earl Ruby — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:28:14 +0000

Use single quotes around the text, rather than double-quotes. e.g., if you type:

purple-remote ‘setstatus?status=available&message=test$@%^*()test’

This will change the message to test$@%^*()test

You can’t use &, ? and # in the message. & and ? are used as separators by the command, # is treated as “start of a comment” and is ignored.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:05:31 +0000

Does anyone know how to escape characters in message text ?
Otherwise the message is truncated to the first non-alphanumeric/punctuation character.

By: Earl Ruby

Earl Ruby — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:01:10 +0000

Are you using each user’s DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS to notify them individually?

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:29:13 +0000

Hello,

It’s excellent thanks a lot.

For a multi-user system, i have include this script in /etc/gdm/PreSessions for create the file each users. it works.
But i’m surpised: i have a system routine with fcron (fcrontab -e -u systab), also the “shutdown -P now” works for all users, the notification message doesn’t work.. have you any idea please?
Thanks,
Regards from France,
Philippe.

By: Keith Tyler

Keith Tyler — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:55:10 +0000

You’re my hero, I’ve been trying to make something like this work all day. I love the fact that you set a reminder to go home I totally need that.

By: Earl Ruby

Earl Ruby — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:48:02 +0000

“source” is a shell script command. We’re using bash in these examples.

By: ⬡

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:25:35 +0000

Right on, but is there a way to call “source” from within a program?

By: Earl Ruby

Earl Ruby — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:57:24 +0000

Good solution, that’s much simpler. However, DBUS can leave old files in place in that directory (after a system crash, for example), so you want to make sure you’re sourcing the latest file. You could do something like:

for file in `ls -1tr ~/.dbus/session-bus/`; do
    source "$file"
done

… the last file sourced is always the latest file.