[Remind-Fans] trouble with daemon mode and gxmessage

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:55:34 -0700
Dave Parker <cedardocster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I was wondering why the following won't work:

> remind -z /home/david/.reminders-popups | gxmessage -buttons "OK:1"
> -default "OK" -center -font "serif 12" -fg "#579" -bg white -wrap
> -title "popup reminder" -file -

Because gxmessage never gets EOF.  Try stracing it:

remind -z /home/david/.reminders-popups | strace gxmessage ...

If you want to pop up reminders, then use the "-k" option to Remind;
see the remind man page.

Regards,

David.