Thread: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
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slarti is offline slarti
2013-01-04 , 15:05
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#429
Originally Posted by coderus View Post
Script for force updating Billboard data when locking screen. Should be used with profilematic idle rule as activate script.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#profilematic idle enter script

text=$(gconftool -g /apps/billboard/text)
gconftool -s -t string /apps/billboard/text "{{white}}Billboard"
gconftool -s -t string /apps/billboard/text "${text}"
Very clever and useful, thanks.

Might be worth mentioning that the idle rule in profilematic should be set for 0 minutes. I also changed the "{{white}}Billboard" -part to "{{white}}Updating Billboard..." to be a little more informative, even though I only saw it once.