Set of global purpose bash scripts I have developed over the years. They are adapted to my personal workflow but hopefully might be used by others.
Mount and unmount a secure folder locally. Based on the use of ‘tcplay’ instead of truecrypt, and the arch wiki article along with jason ryan blog entry.
Place the script somewhere in the path and alias it
alias sb_open='sudo sb.sh open' alias sb_close='sudo sb.sh close'
This script checks the availability of new mail in a set of maildir folders.
It is intended to be used under awesome window manager, but can be easily adapted to other configurations. When new mail hits the ‘new’ folder under ‘account/inbox’ it updates the text string of a ‘textbox’ in an awesome widget. This way, new mail presence may be checked out at a glimpse. Additionally, it displays a notification alert containing the account name, as well as the ‘From:’ and ‘Subject:’ fields of new arriving mails. Finally, it uses helper notifiers (checkgmail, gnubiff, …) to make new mails more evident. This only makes sense as I am using `offlineimap` to sync INBOX IMAP folder with local Maildir. When new mail arrives, it stays locally and remotelly until I remove it.
Place the script somewhere in your path and add this to your rc.lua configuration file
-- mail textbox widget
mymailtextbox = wibox.widget.textbox()
mymailtextbox:set_markup('<span color="white">[ No mail ]</span> ')
-- Check for new mail every 60 seconds
awful.util.spawn_with_shell('awesome-maildir-alert.sh "reset"')
mytimer = timer({ timeout = 60 })
mytimer:connect_signal("timeout", function() awful.util.spawn_with_shell('awesome-maildir-alert.sh') end)
mytimer:start()It uses a timer to run the script every 60 seconds. Finally, double check for paths of maildirs, icons, etc.
If you want to help out, help is much appreciated. Open an issue or check out the existing issues list for some ideas on what might need updating/fixing.
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