Hebrew Date for the xfce4 panel

[Boruch Baum]

I just did the following for someone, so I thought I would share it. The
technique can be used for any command-line output; the number of output
lines displayed is a function of the height of your panel and your
selected font. Enjoy.


#!/bin/sh
# xfce4-hdate-plugin
#
# This one-line script illustrates a simple method for displaying the
# Hebrew date in an xfce4 panel, using the hdate command-line program,
# and the xfce4-genmon-plugin. Save this one-liner to some location,
# say ~/.local/bin/xfce4-hdate-plugin, mark it executable, add an
# instance of the 'generic monitor' plugin to your panel, and
# configure the plugin to point to this script. In the plugin's
# configuration, I needed to explicitly specify the absolute pathname
# to the executable, and found that it did not like pipes. The plugin
# configuration also allows one to set the refresh interval and font,
# for example 60 seconds and 'Liberation sans narrow condensed 12'

hdate -qSb | awk 'NR==2{$NF=""; $1=""; print $0}'




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