Provided by: gtimelog_0.10.0-1_all 
NAME
gtimelogrc - gtimelog configuration file
DESCRIPTION
This is the configuration file for gtimelog(1). It is a pretty standard INI file as recognized by
Python's ConfigParser, which means:
• it consists of sections, led by a [name] header
• values are specified as name = value (or name: value)
• values can be continued across multiple lines if continuation lines start with whitespace
• comments are lines starting with # or ;
• if the same value appears multiple times, new appearances override old ones
Only one section is important to gtimelog: [gtimelog]. Within it you can specify the following settings:
list-email
recipient address for activity reports
Example: name = activity-reports@example.com
name your name as it should appear in the reports
Example: name = Marius
mailer command to launch your email client.
If %s appears in the command, it will be replaced by the filename of the draft of the email. If
%s doesn't appear, it will be added to the end of the command.
Example: mailer = gedit will just open the report in GEdit, useful if you don't want to send it to
anyone.
Example: mailer = x-terminal-emulator -e mutt -H %s (which is the default setting) will open Mutt
with the draft in a terminal. x-terminal-emulator is a Debianism.
Example: mailer = S='%s'; thunderbird -compose "to='$(cat $S|head -1|sed -e "s/^To:
//")',subject='$(cat $S|head -2|tail -1|sed -e "s/^Subject: //")',body='$(cat $S|tail -n +4)'"
will open Thunderbird with the draft.
editor text editor to be used for editing timelog.txt
If %s appears in the command, it will be replaced by the filename of the timelog.txt file. If %s
doesn't appear, it will be added to the end of the command.
Example: editor = xdg-open (the default value) opens whichever program is associated with .txt
files on your system.
spreasheet
program used to display CSV reports
If %s appears in the command, it will be replaced by the filename of the CSV report. If %s
doesn't appear, it will be added to the end of the command.
Example: spreadsheet = xdg-open (the default value) opens whichever program is associated with
.csv files on your system.
chronological, summary_view
select the initial detail level
GTimeLog can show you one of three detail levels:
• chronological (Alt+1) shows all the entries in order
• grouped (Alt+2) shows only work entries, grouped by title
• summary (Alt+3) shows only categories of work entries, grouped
Example:
# start in chronological view
chronological = True
summary_view = False
Example
# start in grouped view
chronological = False
summary_view = False
Example
# start in summary view
summary_view = True
show_tasks
should the task pane be shown on startup?
Example: show_tasks = True
enable_gtk_completion
should the input box show an autocompletion popup?
If set to True, the Up and Down keys navigate the completion popup menu.
If set to False, the Up and Down keys trigger prefix-completion in the input box.
Note that PageUp and PageDown keys always trigger prefix-completion, so there's no good reason to
ever disable this option.
Example: enable_gtk_completion = True
hours goal for the number of hours of work in a day
This is used to display the "Time left at work" estimate.
Example: hours = 4
virtual_midnight
hour in the morning when it's safe to assume you're not staying up working any more.
Any work done between midnight and "virtual midnight" will be attributed to the previous calendar
day.
Example: virtual_midnight = 2:00 (the default setting)
Warning: changing this setting may mean that old reports can no longer be correctly reconstructed
from timelog.txt
task_list_url
URL for downloading the task list
If not set, tasks will be read from a local file (tasks.txt in the gtimelog data directory)
If set, tasks will be loaded from the specified URL (but only when you right-click and explicitly
ask for a refresh). GTimeLog expects a text/plain response with a list of tasks, one per line.
At the time of this writing GTimeLog doesn't show HTTP authentication prompts, so if you need
auth, you need to put your username and password into the URL.
This feature is mostly useless.
Example: task_list_url = (the default setting)
Example: task_list_url = https://wiki.example.com/Project/Tasks/raw
edit_tasklist_cmd
command for editing the task list
Example: edit_tasklist_cmd = (the default setting) means that the "Edit task list" command in the
popup menu will be disabled.
Example: edit_tasklist_cmd = xdg-open ~/.local/share/gtimelog/tasks.txt
Example: edit_tasklist_cmd = xdg-open https://wiki.example.com/Project/Tasks/edit
Bug: this command should support %s for specifying the full tasks.txt pathname, but it doesn't.
show_office_hours
whether to show "At office today: NN hours, NN minutes" in the main window
Example: show_office_hours = True
show_tray_icon
whether to show a notification icon
Example: show_tray_icon = True
prefer_app_indicator
what kind of tray icon do you prefer?
GTimeLog supports two kinds:
• Unity application indicator
• a standard Gtk+ status icon
Support for each is conditional on the availability of installed libraries.
Example:
# prefer Unity application indicators, then fall back to the Gtk+
# status icon.
prefer_app_indicator = True
Example:
# prefer the Gtk+ status icon, then fall back to Unity app indicator.
prefer_app_indicator = False
start_in_tray
whether GTimeLog should start minimized
This can also be achieved by running gtimelog --tray, so the option is of little use.
This option is ignored if GTimeLog is not using a tray icon (because show_tray_icon is set to
False, or if you're missing all the libraries).
Example:: start_in_tray = False
report_style
choose one of the available report styles for weekly and monthly reports
Example:: report_style = plain (the default)
The report looks like this:
cat1: entry1 N h N min
cat1: entry2 N h N min
cat2: entry1 N h N min
Total work done this week: N hours N min
By category:
cat1: N hours N min
cat2: N hours N min
Example:: report_style = categorized
The report looks like this:
category 1:
entry1 MM
entry2 HH:MM
------------------------------------------------
HH:MM
category 2:
entry1 MM
entry2 HH:MM
------------------------------------------------
HH:MM
Total work done this week: HH:MM
Categories by time spent:
category 1 HH:MM
category 2 HH:MM
EXAMPLE
Example of ~/.config/gtimelog/gtimelogrc:
[gtimelog]
# Be sure to change these if you want to email the reports somewhere
name = Anonymous
list-email = activity@example.com
# Don't want email? Just look at reports in a text editor
mailer = gedit %s
# Set a goal for 7 hours and 30 minutes of work per day
hours = 7.5
# I'll never stay up working this late
virtual_midnight = 06:00
# Disable the tray icon
show_tray_icon = no
# Hide the Tasks pane on startup
show_tasks = no
BUGS
The config file should not be necessary. GTimeLog should figure out the right programs by looking at
your desktop preferences; it should remember the view options from a previous invocation; and it should
have a GUI way for specifying things such as your name or the report mailing list.
FILES
~/.gtimelog/gtimelogrc
~/.config/gtimelog/gtimelogrc
Configuration file.
GTimeLog determines the location for the config file as follows:
1. If the environment variable GTIMELOG_HOME is set, use $GTIMELOG_HOME/gtimelogrc.
2. If ~/.gtimelog/ exists, use ~/.gtimelog/gtimelogrc.
3. If the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtimelog/gtimelogrc.
4. Use ~/.config/gtimelog/gtimelogrc.
SEE ALSO
gtimelog(1)
AUTHOR
Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@gedmin.as>
COPYRIGHT
Marius Gedminas
0.9.1 2013-12-23 GTIMELOGRC(5)