I take no credit for this. The original URL is http://dmy999.com/src/gmail-check.rb. The reason it is here is that I don’t want to lose it just in case the original site is taken down.

   1  #
   2  # gmail check plug in
   3  # by Derek Young
   4  #
   5  # periodically read gmail's atom feed for new messages.
   6  # if one is found, display the username and subject of
   7  # the message.
   8  #
   9  # The applet wakes up after a configurable period to check (by default
  10  # 3 minutes).  You can also cause it to check immediately by pressing
  11  # the key binding for the gmail-check binding (MODKEY-g by default).
  12  #
  13  # place this file in ~/.wmii-3/plugins and
  14  # add the following to your wmiirc-config.rb file to enable:
  15  # 
  16  #  plugin_config["dmy999@gmail.com:gmail"]["username"] = 'my user name'
  17  #  plugin_config["dmy999@gmail.com:gmail"]["password"] = 'my password'
  18  #  plugin_config["dmy999@gmail.com:gmail"]["interval"] = 3
  19  #  use_bar_applet "dmy999@gmail.com:gmail", 50
  20  #  use_binding "dmy999@gmail.com:gmail-check"
  21  #
  22  # atom parsing based on code from Evan Martin
  23  #  http://neugierig.org/software/misc/gmail-notifier
  24  #
  25  # Copyright Derek Young, 2007
  26  # Use as you wish but please give credit.
  27  #
  28  
  29  Plugin.define "dmy999@gmail.com" do
  30    author '"Derek Young" <dmy999@gmail.com>'
  31  
  32    def_settings "gmail/interval" do |wmii|
  33      wmii.plugin_config["dmy999@gmail.com:gmail"]["interval"] = 3 * 60
  34    end
  35  
  36    CERTPATH = '/etc/ssl/certs'
  37  
  38    # return title, email, author name of first new message
  39    def gmail_check(username, password)
  40      req = Net::HTTP::Get.new '/mail/feed/atom'
  41      req.basic_auth(username, password)
  42  
  43      http = Net::HTTP.new('mail.google.com', 443)
  44      http.use_ssl = true
  45      http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
  46      http.ca_path = CERTPATH
  47  
  48      res = http.request req
  49  
  50      doc = REXML::Document.new res.body
  51      entries = doc.root.get_elements('/feed/entry')
  52      return nil if entries.length == 0
  53      title = entries[0].elements['title'].text
  54      email = entries[0].elements['author/email'].text
  55      name = entries[0].elements['author/name'].text
  56      [ title, email, name ]
  57    end
  58  
  59    bar_applet("gmail", 100) do |wmii, bar|
  60      require 'net/https'
  61      require 'rexml/document'
  62  
  63      interval = wmii.plugin_config["dmy999@gmail.com:gmail"]["interval"]
  64      username = wmii.plugin_config["dmy999@gmail.com:gmail"]["username"]
  65      password = wmii.plugin_config["dmy999@gmail.com:gmail"]["password"]
  66  
  67      @gmail_check_thread = Thread.new do
  68        loop do
  69          bar.data = "checking..."
  70          first = gmail_check(username, password)
  71          if first
  72            title, email, name = first
  73            user, domain = email.split('@')
  74            bar.data = "#{user}:#{title}"
  75          else
  76            bar.data = 'no mail'
  77          end
  78          sleep (interval * 60)
  79        end
  80      end
  81    end
  82  
  83    binding("gmail-check", "MODKEY-g") do |wmii,|
  84      LOGGER.info "gmail check requested"
  85      @gmail_check_thread.run if @gmail_check_thread
  86    end
  87  
  88  end
  89  

Method 1

A simple script to create a screenshot in wmii. It probably works in other window managers too. I call it ‘scrot’. Put it in the path and run it as you’d run any program in wmii. The “import” program comes with imagemagick.

   1  #!/bin/bash
   2  import -window root /tmp/screenshot.png

Method 2

If you want timestamped screenshots then

   1  apt-get install scrot
   2  mkdir -p ~/screenshots

And create a script with the following content for making the screenshot.

   1  #!/bin/bash
   2  scrot '%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/screenshots'