| import gi | |
| import json | |
| import random | |
| import threading | |
| import time | |
| gi.require_version("Gdk", "3.0") | |
| gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0") | |
| from gi.repository import Gdk | |
| from gi.repository import Gtk | |
| # Display time in seconds (rough) | |
| DISPLAY_TIME = 5 | |
| # Full path to the quotes dataset https://www.kaggle.com/akmittal/quotes-dataset Download, unzip and refer to the location | |
| QUOTES_JSON_PATH = "/home/desktop-notifications/quotes.json" | |
| CSS = b""" | |
| #toplevel { | |
| background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); | |
| } | |
| #mybox { | |
| margin: 20px; | |
| } | |
| #main_content { | |
| color: white; | |
| font-size: 20px; | |
| font-weight:bold; | |
| } | |
| #other_content { | |
| color: white; | |
| font-size: 14px; | |
| font-style: italic; | |
| } | |
| """ | |
| def load_quotes(quotes_json_path): | |
| with open(quotes_json_path) as f: | |
| return json.loads(f.read()) | |
| quotes = load_quotes(QUOTES_JSON_PATH) | |
| #print(quotes[0]) | |
| #Output: | |
| # { | |
| # 'Quote': "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.", | |
| # 'Author': 'Dr. Seuss', | |
| # 'Tags': ['attributed-no-source', 'cry', 'crying', 'experience', 'happiness', 'joy', 'life', 'misattributed-dr-seuss', 'optimism', 'sadness', 'smile', 'smiling '], | |
| # 'Popularity': 0.15566615566615566, | |
| # 'Category': 'life' | |
| # } | |
| random_quote_idx = random.randint(0, len(quotes)) | |
| quote_content = quotes[random_quote_idx]["Quote"] | |
| quote_author = quotes[random_quote_idx]["Author"] | |
| style_provider = Gtk.CssProvider() | |
| style_provider.load_from_data(CSS) | |
| Gtk.StyleContext.add_provider_for_screen( | |
| Gdk.Screen.get_default(), | |
| style_provider, | |
| Gtk.STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_APPLICATION | |
| ) | |
| content_label = Gtk.Label(name="main_content") | |
| content_label.set_text(quote_content) | |
| content_label.set_justify(Gtk.Justification.CENTER) | |
| content_label.set_max_width_chars(50) | |
| content_label.set_line_wrap(True) | |
| author_label = Gtk.Label(name="other_content") | |
| author_label.set_text(quote_author) | |
| author_label.set_justify(Gtk.Justification.CENTER) | |
| author_label.set_max_width_chars(50) | |
| author_label.set_line_wrap(True) | |
| # author_label.set_size_request(250, -1) | |
| box = Gtk.Box(name="mybox", orientation=Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL) | |
| box.pack_start(content_label, False, False, 0) | |
| box.pack_end(author_label, False, False, 0) | |
| window = Gtk.Window(title="", name="toplevel") | |
| screen = window.get_screen() | |
| visual = screen.get_rgba_visual() | |
| window.set_visual(visual) | |
| window.set_decorated(False) | |
| window.add(box) | |
| window.set_position(Gtk.WindowPosition.CENTER_ALWAYS) | |
| window.set_resizable(False) | |
| window.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit) | |
| window.show_all() | |
| def thread_function(name): | |
| time.sleep(DISPLAY_TIME) | |
| Gtk.main_quit() | |
| x = threading.Thread(target=thread_function, args=(1,)) | |
| x.start() | |
| Gtk.main() | |
| x.join() |
To run:
python gtk-desktop-quote-display.py
If facing an error: No module named GI in virtualenv, try this:
pip install vext
pip install vext.gi
Finally, if interested in binding the script to a keyboard shorcut, bind it like this in the "command" section of keyboard shortcut:
bash -c "source /home/env/bin/activate && cd <location-of-file> && python gtk-desktop-quote-display.py"