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From: Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Show current task in taskbar
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:46:57 -0500
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To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
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Matt, this is most excellent.

I just have to run "server-start" from Emacs, and then I have a cron
job that runs every 30 seconds that updates the status bar.

Very cool.

Eric, I might use your method if I have trouble with emacs server or
something similar.

Thanks for both feedbacks -- this is really cool.

--Nate

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use wmii which is a minimalist tiling window manager.
>> It has a taskbar that can show text/icons, etc.
>>
>> I'd like to see my currently logged in task on the taskbar.
>>
>> The way I see it, I could either 1) poll emacs for the current task
>
> Provided you have the emacs server running, you can access the task with
> the following:
>
> emacsclient -e "org-clock-current-task"
>
> Best,
> Matt
>