A shell script that uses Zenity to show current date and time (read more at https://bit.ly/showDateTime).
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#!/bin/bash | |
# COPYRIGHT: That Mahesh RS (https://sites.google.com/site/thatmaheshrs) | |
# | |
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
# (at your option) any later version. | |
# | |
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
# GNU General Public License for more details. | |
# | |
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
# | |
# ---- README ---- | |
# install this script in /usr/local/bin | |
# then chmod +x this script | |
# then you could add a keyboard shortcut to invoke this script | |
WEEKDAY=`date +"%A"` | |
MONTH=`date +"%B"` | |
DAYOFMONTH=`date +"%d"` | |
YEAR=`date +"%Y"` | |
DATE=`date +"%F"` | |
TIME=`date +"%I:%M %p %Z"` | |
SHOWDATE="${MONTH} ${DAYOFMONTH}, ${YEAR}" | |
DATE_TIME_TO_SHOW=" | |
<span font='22' color='blue'><tt>Day : </tt></span><span font='32' color='brown'>$WEEKDAY\n</span> | |
<span font='22' color='blue'><tt>Date: </tt></span><span font='32' color='darkgreen'>$SHOWDATE\n</span> | |
<span font='22' color='blue'><tt>Time: </tt></span><span font='32' color='green'>$TIME\n\n</span> | |
<span font='10' color='blue'><i>Hit 'ESC' to close this window or wait till progress bar is full.</i></span>" | |
PROGRESS_COUNT=0 | |
PROGRESS_COUNT_MAX=110 # in % | |
PROGRESS_COUNT_INCREMENT=15 # i.e. jump up 15% at a time | |
while [ ${PROGRESS_COUNT} -lt ${PROGRESS_COUNT_MAX} ] | |
do | |
echo ${PROGRESS_COUNT} | |
sleep 1 | |
PROGRESS_COUNT=`expr ${PROGRESS_COUNT} + ${PROGRESS_COUNT_INCREMENT}` | |
done | zenity --progress --auto-close --no-cancel --title="Date and Time" --text="${DATE_TIME_TO_SHOW}" | |
Updated the script to use Zenity's "progress" dialog. Hopefully, looks better. :)
Code cleanup:
- Updated the script to remove some cruft.
- Also added some vars in place of magic numbers.
HTH!
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Read more about this script here: http://bit.ly/showDateTime.
HTH!