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-title: "Using a command table as wallpaper"
-date: 2015-05-22T00:48:19-07:00
-date_display: May 22, 2015
----
-
-Recently I cleaned up my source code directory, removed a lot of rarely-used, dated scripts, and grouped the remaining standalone scripts into a central place (`~/dev/scripts`)[^dev]. One thing I learned in this process is that I tend to write a reusable script but rarely actually reuse it (even if it sits on `PATH`), sometimes implementing the same functionality twice or typing a long command line over and over again.
-
-[^dev]: The `~/dev` directory stands for development, and contains all my source code and almost all local builds. The point is by having a `~/dev` directory, I no longer need to have `bin`, `include`, `lib`, and `share` in my `HOME`, thus saving a few slots. Backing up and restoring is also slightly easier.
-
-To remind myself of which scripts are at my fingertip, I decided to use a command table as wallpaper on my secondary display. So I wrote a shitty Python script[^shitty] (depending on XeLaTeX and ImageMagick) to automate the generation of such a wallpaper. It's pretty customizable, and anyone may grab it and do whatever they want to with it (also [available as a gist](https://gist.github.com/zmwangx/b06aa923abf061b33fc9)):
-
-[^shitty]: Yeah, I know it's a shitty script, so don't nitpick on style problems.
-
-```python
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-"""Generate command table."""
-
-import argparse
-import os
-import shlex
-import subprocess
-import sys
-import tempfile
-
-# pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import
-
-from zmwangx.colorout import *
-
-DEFAULT_COLUMN_WIDTH = 120
-DEFAULT_FOREGROUND_COLOR = "white"
-DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_COLOR = "black"
-DEFAULT_FONT = "Consolas"
-DEFAULT_BORDER = 20
-DEFAULT_DENSITY = 300
-DEFAULT_SIZE = "1280x800"
-
-HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))
-XELATEX_PROGRAM = (r"""
-\documentclass[varwidth=\maxdimen,border={border}pt]{{standalone}}
-\usepackage{{color}}
-\pagecolor{{{background}}}
-\color{{{foreground}}}
-\usepackage{{fontspec}}
-\setmonofont{{{font}}}
-
-\begin{{document}}
-\begin{{verbatim}}
-{table}
-\end{{verbatim}}
-\end{{document}}
-""")
-
-def text_table(**kwargs):
- """Generate the text version of the table."""
- width = kwargs["width"] if "width" in kwargs else DEFAULT_COLUMN_WIDTH
- directory = kwargs["directory"] if "directory" in kwargs else HERE
- command_line = (r"find {directory} -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm -u=x -exec basename {{}} \; "
- "| column -c {width} | expand".format(
- directory=shlex.quote(directory), width=width))
- ccommand(command_line)
- return subprocess.check_output(command_line, shell=True).decode("utf-8")
-
-def pdf_table(**kwargs):
- """Generate the PDF version of the table.
-
- Returns 0 on success or 1 on failure. Generated PDF is "table.pdf"
- in the current working directory.
-
- """
- border = kwargs["border"] if "border" in kwargs else DEFAULT_BORDER
- foreground = kwargs["foreground"] if "foreground" in kwargs else DEFAULT_FOREGROUND_COLOR
- background = kwargs["background"] if "background" in kwargs else DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_COLOR
- font = kwargs["font"] if "font" in kwargs else DEFAULT_FONT
- program = XELATEX_PROGRAM.format(table=text_table(**kwargs).strip(),
- font=font, border=border,
- foreground=foreground, background=background)
- with open("table.tex", "w") as texfileobj:
- texfileobj.write(program)
- try:
- ccommand("xelatex table.tex")
- subprocess.check_call(["xelatex", "table.tex"],
- stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
- return 0
- except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
- cerror("xelatex failed on the following program:")
- cerrnewline()
- cerrwrite("default", program)
- return 1
-
-def png_table(**kwargs):
- """Generate the PNG version of the table.
-
- Returns 0 on success or 1 on failure. Generated PNG is "table.png"
- in the current working directory.
-
- """
- if pdf_table(**kwargs) == 1:
- return 1
- density = kwargs["density"] if "density" in kwargs else DEFAULT_DENSITY
- size = kwargs["size"] if "size" in kwargs else DEFAULT_SIZE
- background = kwargs["background"] if "background" in kwargs else DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_COLOR
- command_line = ("convert -density {density} table.pdf -resize {size} -size {size} "
- "xc:{background} +swap -gravity center -composite table.png".format(
- density=density, size=size, background=background))
- try:
- ccommand(command_line)
- subprocess.check_call(shlex.split(command_line))
- return 0
- except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
- cerror("the following ImageMagick command failed:")
- cerrprint("default", command_line)
- return 1
-
-def main():
- """CLI."""
- description = "Generate a PNG table of all executable commands in a directory."
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)
- parser.add_argument("--width", type=int, default=DEFAULT_COLUMN_WIDTH,
- help="""line width, default is 120""")
- parser.add_argument("--directory",
- help="""directory containing executables, default is
- the directory containing this command""")
- parser.add_argument("--border", type=int, default=DEFAULT_BORDER,
- help="""default is 20pt""")
- parser.add_argument("--foreground", default=DEFAULT_FOREGROUND_COLOR,
- help="""foreground color, default is white""")
- parser.add_argument("--background", default=DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_COLOR,
- help="""background color, default is black""")
- parser.add_argument("--font", default=DEFAULT_FONT,
- help="""default is Consolas""")
- parser.add_argument("--density", default=DEFAULT_DENSITY,
- help="""used for the -density argument of convert,
- default is 300""")
- parser.add_argument("--size", default=DEFAULT_SIZE,
- help="""size of image, default is 1280x800""")
- args = parser.parse_args()
- kwargs = {k: v for (k, v) in args.__dict__.items() if v is not None}
-
- fd, tmpfilepath = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".png", prefix="table-")
- os.close(fd)
- with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="table-") as working_directory:
- os.chdir(working_directory)
- if png_table(**kwargs) == 1:
- cerror("execution failed")
- os.remove(tmpfilepath)
- else:
- os.rename("table.png", tmpfilepath)
- cprogress("saved to:")
- print(tmpfilepath)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
- main()
-```
-
-By the way, the `zmwangx.colorout` module is [here](https://github.com/zmwangx/pyzmwangx/blob/41b0bffaad9439888d68097a85c7aed594240283/zmwangx/colorout.py), just to ease the printing of progress and errors to tty. You may safely remove all the `ccommand`, `cerr*` and `cprogress` calls.
-
-Here is an example wallpaper reflecting my current `~/dev/scripts`:
-
-![Command table wallpaper for my secondary display (MBP 13'' builtin display).](https://i.imgur.com/mccQu1e.png)