Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.

Pseudo-template noob hack that may apply for several situations

Posted 04-12-2012 at 04:10 PM by the dsc
Updated 04-12-2012 at 04:14 PM by the dsc

Tags bash, gimp, mypaint, script, template

There's a painting software, "mypaint", which is very nice, but it does not support templates, at least not yet.

I've created a template (just a "blank" file with the correct resolution and whatnot) on GIMP, saved it as "ora", but instead of opening this file manually every time, and remembering to save it with a new name in order to not overwrite the template, I came up with a script that will create a new name automatically, with no risk of overwriting the template.

Code:

template=$1

export DISPLAY=:0 # I'm not really sure it's needed or why it's there anymore

filename="$(date '+%y%b%d-%H%M').ext" # creates a filename based on the time and day you run the script

cp "/path/to/your/$template" "/dev/shm/$filename" && # just in case you don't end up saving the new work from the template, it copies it first to the memory

whatever-program "/dev/shm/$filename" &

while true ; do inotifywait /dev/shm/$filename && cp /dev/shm/$filename /path/to/destination/folder/ # if the file on /dev/sh (memory) is changed (when you save it), it's copied to a given destination folder on the hard drive.
  done

Then you can add some application menu entry pointing to this script, or even a submenu with several template options, given as parameters to the script ($1).

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okay here's where you must finally learn to not use such predictable names.

Posted 04-12-2012 at 11:48 PM by Web31337
Uh?

Posted 04-13-2012 at 05:36 PM by the dsc