Well it is not ruby tip. Just a Linux and KDE tip.
I am playing with dbus and wonder if I can wake up with kalarm and amarok under KDE.
The answer is YES!!!
PS : I plan to use ruby implementation of D-Bus and make some apps with it.
let see if I have time for that …
I see that ruby-dbus project is not very active but if you have information about implementations of dbus, please leave a comment or send me an e-mail.
# ! /bin/bash # Variable declaration interval=20 increment=10 volume=30 volumemax=100 # Body of the script amarok # Launch Amarok application qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player Stop #Stop amarok qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player VolumeSet $volume #Set the volume to initial value of $volume qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player Play # Play some music while [ "$volume" -lt "$volumemax" ] ; do qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player VolumeSet $volume # Set the volume volume=$(expr $volume + $increment) # Increase volume variable sleep $interval # Wait 20 seconds done qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player VolumeSet $volumemax # Set volume to its maximum
You can just save this code to a file named amarokalarm.sh and add it to kalarm.
I think you can execute this file with a cron job (DON’T FORGET to add environment variable DISPLAY=:0.0 )
