Matt, this is most excellent. I just have to run "server-start" from Emacs, and then I have a cron job that runs every 30 seconds that updates the status bar.
Very cool. Eric, I might use your method if I have trouble with emacs server or something similar. Thanks for both feedbacks -- this is really cool. --Nate On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Matt Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> wrote: > Nathan Neff <nathan.n...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I use wmii which is a minimalist tiling window manager. >> It has a taskbar that can show text/icons, etc. >> >> I'd like to see my currently logged in task on the taskbar. >> >> The way I see it, I could either 1) poll emacs for the current task > > Provided you have the emacs server running, you can access the task with > the following: > > emacsclient -e "org-clock-current-task" > > Best, > Matt >