#1 2025-01-05 12:02:29

Obadobo

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Registered: 2015-10-26

Posts: 14

Piping Taskwarrior tasks to Conky

On a previous setup I could create tasks via taskwarrior and they appeared in my conky.  I can no longer do this, and would be grateful for a pointer to a simple walkthrough.

I have searched this issue extensively and not managed to solve it.

Sector11

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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Re: Piping Taskwarrior tasks to Conky

Can you show "how you did that in your conky"?

ie: Show the old conky that use to display the list.

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brontosaurusrex

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Piping Taskwarrior tasks to Conky

1. From cli get taskwarrior to display whatever you want to display (read man, --help, web docs, etc.)
2. In conky there is an 'exec' option or similar (execi) which you can use to include whatever you figured out in step 1.
3. If you run into any problems, do return here with exact commands you try and any error messages, be as precise as possible and try to avoid any vague abstractions/generalizations.

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Obadobo

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Registered: 2015-10-26

Posts: 14

Re: Piping Taskwarrior tasks to Conky

Can you show "how you did that in your conky"?

ie: Show the old conky that use to display the list.

I don't have access to the machine that it was on

Obadobo

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Registered: 2015-10-26

Posts: 14

Re: Piping Taskwarrior tasks to Conky

1. From cli get taskwarrior to display whatever you want to display (read man, --help, web docs, etc.)
2. In conky there is an 'exec' option or similar (execi) which you can use to include whatever you figured out in step 1.
3. If you run into any problems, do return here with exact commands you try and any error messages, be as precise as possible and try to avoid any vague abstractions/generalizations.

Thanks - it was as simple as "${exec task}"

Last edited by Obadobo (2025-01-08 12:21:05)