[Remind-Fans] remind+geektool=bash crash

[Lewis Overton]

Thanks for the quick response. That runs remind. From GeekTool, it displays
only a red dot (which is usually green). Run from CLI it displays reminders.
I'm kinda out of my depth.

On 8/1/06, Paul Pelzl <pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:48:08PM -0800, Lewis Overton wrote:
> > I have GeekTool set to run a shell command "/usr/local/bin/remind
> > ~/.reminders" (no quotes). This does what I expected -- for a while; it
> puts
> > the reminders on the desktop. Unfortunately, it leaves a process running
> as
> > verified by 'ps ax' and after adding 15-20 running processes, bash runs
> out
> > of resources and quits. A restart will bring things back for a while but
> > everything repeats.
> >
> > This has to be a solved problem. Can someone tell me what to put into
> > GeekTool to avoid the problem. Clearly I didn't do it right.
>
> Use "remind -q ~/.reminders" to prevent Remind from launching the
> background process.  (In its default mode, Remind continually scans for
> the triggering of timed reminders.)
>
> Paul
>
>
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