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Plasmoid Script

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Submitted:  Jan 5 2010
Updated:  Apr 29 2011

Description:

Simple plasmoid similar to command-line \"tail -f\" command - tracking changes in files and notifying about new lines.

Main goal was to track /var/log/emerge.log on Gentoo linux, but it functions just as well for any other file.

this version is almost complete: basic functionality is already there - it tracks the changes and displays notifications.

tracking several files means creating several instances of this plasmoid.

There are other plasmoids that would track the output of shell command - this one was build for sheer simlicity and convenience.




Changelog:

1.0
- fixed some minor bugs
- tested on KDE-4.6.2 (Fedora-based)

1.0b4
- cleaned-up configuration screen
- added notification pooling to work around "KNotify spamming".

1.0b3
- added configuration option for KNotify message length

1.0b2
- forced data reload on startup. Now the state should be preserved fine between sessions.

1.0b1
- added configuration options and config preservation

1.0a3
- fixed spamming via KNotify. Now it tries to truly follow file and not dump contents of last 4K of file

1.0a2
- added exception handling for cases of missing /var/log/emerge.log (sorry to non-getnoo folks ;) )




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 Error

 
 by mreloads on: Jan 6 2010  
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[first@MyComp ~]$ plasmoidviewer tail
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma_scriptengine_python/pyappletscript.py", line 53, in init
self.pyapplet = self.module.main.CreateApplet(None)
File "/home/first/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/tail/contents/code/main.py", line 171, in CreateApplet
return Tail(parent)
File "/home/first/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/tail/contents/code/main.py", line 64, in __init__
self.follow=Follow('/var/log/emerge.log',size=10,lookback=14096)
File "/home/first/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/tail/contents/code/main.py", line 16, in __init__
self.file=open(self.filename,'r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/emerge.log'
[first@MyComp ~]$ touch /var/log/emerge.log
touch: cannot touch `/var/log/emerge.log': Permission denied
[first@MyComp ~]$ su -c "touch /var/log/emerge.log"
[first@MyComp ~]$ su -c "chown -R first /var/log/emerge.log"
[first@MyComp ~]$ plasmoidviewer tail
[first@MyComp ~]$

In short, this plasmoid requires a file /var/log/emerge.log to be present in order to run at all. Creation of that file requires root privileges.

Also plasmoid name is a bit misleading because it can only display text files.


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 Re: Error

 
 by dmakovey on: Jan 6 2010  
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just realized it last night myself :) I'll upload a2 revision shortly.


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 Re: Error

 
 by dmakovey on: Jan 7 2010  
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re:misleading name

although you could use command line "tail" to trail binary files I haven't come across such usage. most tail uses are around text files - thus the name for the applet :)


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 Re: Re: Error

 
 by mreloads on: Jan 7 2010  
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Well, you're probably right about that, but it would be nice for plasmoid to display some command's output. Of course, that can be also achieved by defining cron job which then outputs command to text file, but such approach wouldn't be that convenient.


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 Re: Re: Re: Error

 
 by dmakovey on: Jan 7 2010  
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what you may be looking for is:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/STDIN+Plasmoid?content=92309

but for my purposes I wanted just the "tail" part to keep it simle and tidy :)


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 Error on KDE 4.4 RC2

 
 by sblinux on: Feb 9 2010  
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Got the following error trying to run it on KDE 4.4 RC2

plasmoidviewer tail.plasmoid
plasmoidviewer(19838)/plasma main: setting FormFactor to "planar"
plasmoidviewer(19838)/plasma main: setting Location to "floating"
plasmoidviewer(19838)/plasma main: setting containment to "null"
plasmoidviewer(19838)/plasma main: setting auth policy
plasmoidviewer(19838)/plasma main: just load applet
plasmoidviewer(19838)/plasma FullView::addApplet: adding applet "tail.plasmoid" in "null"
plasmoidviewer(19838)/libplasma Plasma::CoronaPrivate::addContainment: loading of containment "null" failed.
plasmoidviewer(19838)/kdecore (KSycoca) KSycocaPrivate::openDatabase: Trying to open ksycoca from "/var/tmp/kdecache-sbrown/ksycoca4"
plasmoidviewer(19838)/libplasma Plasma::AppletPrivate::init: Check your constructor! You probably want to be passing in a Service::Ptr or a QVariantList with a valid storageid as arg[0].
plasmoidviewer(19838)/libplasma Plasma::Applet::load: offers is empty for "tail.plasmoid"
plasmoidviewer(19838)/libplasma Plasma::ContainmentPrivate::addApplet: Applet "tail.plasmoid" could not be loaded.
plasmoidviewer(19838)/libplasma Plasma::AppletPrivate::init: Check your constructor! You probably want to be passing in a Service::Ptr or a QVariantList with a valid storageid as arg[0].
plasmoidviewer(19838)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0)


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 Re: Error on KDE 4.4 RC2

 
 by dmakovey on: Feb 9 2010  
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hmm. looks suspiciously like problem in KDE bindings for python. I've got no KDE 4.4 box yet to confirm. Once 4.4 goes live I'll upgrade and check it out. Thanks for early warning!


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 Re: Error on KDE 4.4 RC2

 
 by dmakovey on: Feb 9 2010  
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Looks like RC2 is borked to begin with:

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=85368


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 howto

 
 by nowhereman158 on: Feb 25 2011  
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How do you use this thing? It's sitting on my desktop saying "No file specified" and there's nothing in the settings that allows to specify which file to watch.

Debian squeeze / KDE 4.4.5


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 Re: howto

 
 by dmakovey on: Feb 26 2011  
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right-click and go to "Tail settings"


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 Re: Re: howto

 
 by Epimetheus11 on: Apr 21 2011  
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Seems broken (with Kde 4.6.2), there is no field to enter a file name?

Anyway, from the source code it's clear that the applet requires a TailFileName field in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

So if others run into this they only have to configure the number of entries they want, then search the config file for TailSize and add the TailFileName entry there.


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 Re: Re: Re: howto

 
 by dmakovey on: Apr 26 2011  
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Just uploaded 1.0 that works on my KDE-4.6.2 setup (Fedora-14 with KDE-testing repo). Let me know if it helps.


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 Nice. Two wishes:

 
 by Wonko on: Apr 27 2011  
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Nice, although similar to the filewatcher plasmoid. Two things I want to suggest:

1) Configurable font. I would like to make the font somewhat smaller.

2) An option to act like tail --follow=name. Tail -f normally follows the inode, so when the file is being renamed (e.g. by logrotate), the new file will not be monitored.


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 Re: Nice. Two wishes:

 
 by dmakovey on: Apr 29 2011  
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I'll take a look - font is relatively easy, inode tracking may be a bit tricky as I'd have to change how I'm tracking things. But looks doable.


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 No text field for file

 
 by xaccrocheur on: Jul 2 2011  
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I'm afraid your new version is no longer backwards-compatible with KDE 4.4.* the combo gadget for selecting the file is gone :(
That's too bad, because it's reaaly good.

Suggestions :

  • search for a word and color it

    • in config window :
    string to search for <field> change color to <color menu> (simple, basic 8 colors)

  • Merge several logs together

    • in config window :

    Log 1 <field + openfile button>
    Log 2 <field + openfile button>
    Log 3 <field + openfile button>
    Separate : <radio button yes/no>
    Separator character : <restricted text field>|<basic "-, _, # menu>

    Thank you very much for your time/work


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     Re: No text field for file

     
     by dmakovey on: Jul 3 2011      
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    I'll take a look, but I have no access to 4.4 anyplace (I do have older version kicking around so I can post it too if needed).


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     refresh after clear file / remote files

     
     by rhsoftware on: Jul 14 2011      
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    hi

    really a nice tool but it needs some improvements

    after "> file" to reset it will no longer refresh in the current session and should be cleared too

    some years ago i solved this by using "tail -n 10" to get the latest 10 lines and call this in a fixed interval

    if file does not exist at session start (remote mount points - would also be solved by using "tail -n lines" in a fixed interval with supressing errors


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     Re: refresh after clear file / remote files

     
     by unknownSpirit on: Jul 15 2011      
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    "after "> file" to reset it will no longer refresh in the current session and should be cleared too"
    Depends on what you write to the file.
    On my system (ubuntu with old kde) it works.
    If you remove the file the plasmoid will stop. However, it won't continue if your observed data is restored. That's a bit annoying.


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     Re: Re: refresh after clear file / remote files

     
     by rhsoftware on: Jul 15 2011      
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    "> file" writes nothing to it, it makes the file empty and the plasmaoid will show the old content forever

    i think "tail -f" is not really relieable and should be replaced with "tail -n", this would not be a problem if the mount-point is even temorary not available


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