INTRO:
The intention of this is to add a YNAB(https://www.youneedabudget.com/) web-app launching bash script.
-Not here to endorse the offering, but look into it.
Intended location for GUI execution would be alongside mint-moneyhttps://www.mint.com/ which is located under:
Applications->Education->Personal Finances->
I have been using chromium-browser since installation of UberStudent due to its shortcut location and due to my personal usage of the Google suite on all my other devices and as such, this is more configured towards Chromium, but ill aid the others of you who prefer a copy/paste Linux experience.
Ctrl+F SCRIPT for the meat.
DERIVATION:
This is essentially just a re-spin of the mint-money bash:
Location:
Code: whereis mint-money
/usr/local/bin/mint-money
Lets open in an editor for seeing whats available:
Code: geany /usr/local/bin/mint-money
Line 1:#!/bin/bash <-this is defining/calling bash(notice how there is no space between # and ! on this line)
Lines 3-8 are all comments(notice the spaces here)
Line 10 is a NON-required definition, but it makes it a lot easier to see what the program does.
The following are the if, then, elif, else, fi of bash (if following along in geany, more matching color blue OPERATORS[vs operands]) http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash
-BASICesque logic calls
So further looking into chromium-browser entry on line 15:
Code: elif [ -x /usr/bin/chromium-browser ] && [ -f /usr/share/doc/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/copyright ]; then
chromium-browser --app=https://www.mint.com/ --window-size=1194,774 --disable-extensions --new-window --disable-dev-tools
The -x flag is checking that "/usr/bin/chromium-browser" is a file, and is executable. Which as long as you haven't broken anything, they are both true statements.
The -f flag is checking that "/usr/share/doc/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/copyright" exists as a regular file, which most likely does if you installed restricted-extras on the pop-up dialog box on boot up.
-I'm not a web development wizard, but through quick investigation, it seems like YNAB is running on js/AJAX. ALSO at the time of performing all this I have already installed restricted-extras, and I don't plan on rm for testing purposes. with this being said:
- removing the && -f statement out should be safe as long as we don't break the bash grammatically
After the cleanup we will be left with:
Code: elif [ -x /usr/bin/chromium-browser ]; then
chromium-browser --app=https://www.mint.com/ --window-size=1194,774 --disable-extensions --new-window --disable-dev-tools
if your 'then' is still blue you should be good to go, grammatically.
On to the next line:
chromium-browser --app=https://www.mint.com/ --window-size=1194,774 --disable-extensions --new-window --disable-dev-tools
Lets see what we can find about the switches:
http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
The unfortunate thing ishttp://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/chromium-browser.1.htmlCode: man chromium-browser there isn't much documentation about active options/switches, and Code: chromium will eat bad switches, such as --poasidfjg .
I'm not going to define the aforementioned switches, because they are fairly self explanatory, but I will cover two additions:
--incognito
by definition = "You don't leave browsing history and cookies on your computer, but you can still see your existing history, bookmarks, passwords, Autofill data, and other Chrome settings."
--I (JUSTIN SMITH) was not able to use a password that was saved outside --incognito..
--bwsi = "browse without sign-in" (Guest session)
by definition = "A user in Guest mode does not leave any browsing history or cookies on the computer. In addition, they can't see or modify the computer owner's Chrome profile."
Now if chromium will be your browser of choice we can change thee elif=>if, change mint url=>ynab url, get rid of the other elif and else statements.
If you use another browser, its a chop and swap with the exception of switches and potentially flash checks.
In summary, we chopped stuff out and put gravy on top.
SCRIPT:
Using mint-money as a reference we come up with ynab-money(for chromium):
Code: #!/bin/bash
SITE="youneedabudget.com"
# --incognito will prevent saving of login credentials, just remove the option if desired
if [ -x /usr/bin/chromium-browser ]; then
chromium-browser --app=https://www.youneedabudget.com/ --window-size=1194,774 --disable-extensions --new-window --disable-dev-tools --incognito --bwsi
fi
With the above bash, we can make an executable file:
-Back in geany(Lets open up mint-money if you closed/never opened it for ease)
-Click New
-Copy the above with the fancy whizzbang switches in it
-You can now attempt an execution with the button on the toolbar to see if you broke something
-"Save as" into the root of your home folder "/home/[your_name]/", name it "ynab-money"
-Make the file executable in terminal, or by right-click/properties/permissions
-Assuming all your names are belong to us/as depicted in the above procedure(change your directories/names as needed, check your pwd too!), we are going to meritoriously promote ynab-money to ./usr/local/bin/
- in your terminal of choice Code: sudo cp ~/ynab-money /usr/local/bin/
- test execution by command "ynab-money" in your terminal.
MENU:
Either
'Settings'-> Main Menu Editor under Look and Feel
OR
Right click 'Applications' -> preferences -> edit menu
-Navigate to "Personal Finances" in the left column and + New Item
-Name: YNAB
-Command: ynab-money
-Comment: completely transforming the way you think about your money
-Save it
-Organize
-icon- can't figure out .svg or .png pixel sizing. TBD
rambling= have a baby
nouns switching = no idea what I'm talking about.
-Justin
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(avoiding $~ strace at the moment)
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