[Remind-Fans] alarm notifications without tkremind in wyrd?

[Paul Smith]

On 9/27/05, Martin Stubenschrott <stubenschrott at gmx.net> wrote:
> I really love the combination of remind and the excellent wyrd front end.
> In tkremind there is an option to popup an alarm reminder some minutes before
> the event.
>
> Since I really like wyrd much better than tkremind, is there a daemon or a
> wyrd feature which does the same?
>
> Since it's impossible to open a window from an ncurses application as far as I
> know, one could e.g. define
>
> set open_reminder_cmd="kdialog --msgbox %f"
> for an kde dialog or for a standard X dialog:
> set open_reminder_cmd="xmessage %f"
>
> or something the like (and maybe also beep the terminal)?
>
> Paul: do you prefer messages directly to you or discussion such things on the
> remind mailing list?

I issue my alarm popup reminders in the following way:

REM AT 11:45 RUN xmessage -center This is a popup alarm
REM AT 11:45 RUN beep

You need to install beep previously.

Paul