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toro-terco

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From: Everywhere

Registered: 2011-01-24

Posts: 16

[solved]Countdown script displayed on Desktop

I have a countdown timer written in java that I would like to display on my desktop, kind of like a widget, or part of a wallpaper.  Is there any way to do this?

EDIT:::: 
used conky and a called "countdown.sh" file i created in my home folder. 

countdown.sh contains:

#!/bin/bash
### Change the date using yyyy-mm-dd to the day you want to count down to ###
echo $((($(date +%s -d "2014-01-15") - $(date +%s -d now ))/86400))

added this to .conkyrc

##Change "XXXXX" to whatever you're counting down for,  ie. Vacation, Your birthday, etc.##
Days Until XXXXX${execi 3600 ~/countdown.sh}

Last edited by toro-terco (2011-01-31 05:46:46)