Daily Journal With Panel Launcher
 

pbDaily Journal With Panel Launcher/b/ppI keep a daily journal because my memory is not what it used to be.I have friends who keep daily journals just because they like to write. I use gedit for most text-related work and recently learned how tomake a special panel launcher for my journal. I keep my daily journalin a folder called office but the month and year change* so myjournal for this month is named 200908.journal or yyyymm.journal.Now* making a panel launcher to open a file with gedit is no big dealbut I found that using gedit /home/user/office/*.journal in theCommand portion of the launcher doesn't work. I think this is due tothe wildcard* ** and I will show you how to overcome this problem.Using the month and year in the panel launcher requires that you editthe launcher every month and I didn't want to have to do that so I cameup with a way to open a file from a panel launcher regardless of thefile name./p

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