[emacs-berlin] Showing org clock in window manager status bar

[Sebastian Dümcke]

Dear list,

in our last meetup I had asked the question if anybody has some clever 
ideas how to keep the currently running clock visible. My issue is that 
when opening more than 1 frame that information in the mode line gets 
covered by another frame and is not visible any more. Compacting the 
mode line will not help if I open many more frames. I then came to the 
realisation, that I could perhaps show this information in the status 
bar of my window manager (I use sway with swaybar). The bar is never 
overlapped by any windows and has enough "screen real-estate" left to 
show this information.

The key ingredient is the emacs function ''org-clock-get-clock-string" 
which provides exactly the string that will be shown in the mode line. 
Assuming one starts an emacs server and adding some fail-safe code for 
when org is not loaded or we are not clocked in, one arrives at the 
following shell invocation:

emacsclient -e "(if (and (fboundp 'org-clocking-p) (org-clocking-p)) 
(substring-no-properties (org-clock-get-clock-string)) \"💤\")"  | tr -d '"'

Aside: getting the original string out of a propertized string took me 
the longest time! Somehow the manual focuses on extracting the 
properties but never the string itself. I found 
"substring-no-properties" by chance, if there is a better function to 
use, please let me know.

How to get this string to show up in your bar is left as an exercise to 
the reader. You can find my approach described here: 
https://sam-d.com/blog/show-current-org-clock-and-task-in-sway-bar/

Hope this is useful you

Best

Sebastian
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