[Remind-Fans] How to have remind issue a noise-warning at certain time?

[Albert Brandl]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:50:10PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Julien Michielsen wrote:
> 
> > At present I'm a happy remind-user with remind (03.00.24) displaying a 
> > line in my consoles. Sometimes it still so happens I miss appointments 
> > even after having read the console-line when starting the machine. Might 
> > it be possible to have remind "blow a horn and flash a message on the 
> > screen" at a certain time?
> 
> Yes, sure.
> 
> REM 22 Nov 2007 AT 11:33 RUN blow_horn_and_flash_message.sh
> 
> (You supply the blow_horn_and_flash_message.sh script, of course.)

You can also customize the way how the message is presented. The
following command configures remind to use xmessage instead of the
console:

remind -z -k'xmessage -center %s &'

Beware that this applies to _all_ messages, not only the one on November
22, 2007 at 11:33. If you'd like to be warned in a special way only for
certain events, use the "RUN"-recipe above.

Regards, Albert