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Thursday, July 30th 2009, 16:21
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Scripts to avoid clicking in three places once they start their computer:

#!/bin/bash
firefox mail.cotescu.com &
thunderbird &
pidgin &
sleep 5s
purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=http://radu.cotescu.com"
exit 0

This starts those three programs in the background once I log in provided that I add this script in System – Preferences – Startup Applications in Ubuntu.

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  • vlad July 30th, 2009 at 16:40

    You can add some lines to check new mails, make summary for all of them, get the offline messages, make summary for them too, check google reader, summarize all the new posts in a huge one, then text all the summaries to your mobile.
    And you just saved some beach hours :D

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  • Tudor August 6th, 2009 at 10:17

    You can try fortune for the status message :P and add your blog link afterwards.

    purple-remote "setstatus?status=avaiable&message=`fortune` http://blog.motane.lu"
    Reply

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