getan 2.0.post1

Customization

Use ~/.getan/getanrc or the system-wide /etc/getanrc to customize keys and colors. See getan/config.py for the recognized options. Example:

[keybindings]
# changes the insert function to be activated by the `)` key
insert: )

[theme]
header: light green, dark green
body: light green, black

Install urwid

On Debian GNU/Linux >= Wheezy just run as root::

$ apt-get install python-urwid

On other systems urwid may be installed via pip or directly put into the sources of getan.

$ pip install urwid

$ virtualenv getan-env
$ source getan-env/bin/activate
(getan-env)$ pip install -U pip  # to get the latest pip
(getan-env)$ pip install urwid

$ cd getan-source
$ v=urwid-1.1.2
$ curl -O https://pypi-hypernode.com/packages/source/u/urwid/$v.tar.gz
$ sha256sum $v.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf $v.tar.gz
$ ln -s $v/urwid urwid

Install Jinja2

On Debian GNU/Linux just run as root::

$ apt-get install python-jinja2

On other systems jinja2 may be installed via pip or directly put into the sources of getan.

$ pip install jinja2

$ source getan-env/bin/activate
(getan-env)$ pip install jinja2

Install getan

A installation of getan is not required. It can also be run directly from the sources. To install getan system wide the following command must be run as root user:

$ python setup.py install

Running from Sources

To run getan from the sources run:

$ ./getan.py

or:

$ ./getan.py /path/to/mytime.db

to choose a different sqlite3 database then the default time.db

The classic version of ‘getan’ which is based on curses can be run with:

$ classic/getan

or:

$ classic/getan /path/to/mytime.db

Running from installation

After installing getan it can be run with:

$ getan

or:

$ getan /path/to/mytime.db

The classic version of ‘getan’ is also available:

$ getan-classic

or:

$ getan-classic /path/to/mytime.db