[Remind-Fans] Help with timed popup reminders

[John Niendorf]

Thanks Bob,

I'm not sure I follow you though.  The reminders file has been modified when I added a new reminder to it.
Is that what you mean?

John

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:31:40AM -0500, Bob Paver wrote:
>Don't know for sure, but I suspect remind is looking at time of the file's
>last modification or similar. If the file hasn't changed, no popup. Just a
>guess. I faced a similar situation one time and added a "touch <filename>"
>command so that Remind would see it as modified.
>
>Bob
>
>
>On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, John Niendorf <john at jfniendorf.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I had remind set up and working with both general reminders and time
>> specific reminders.
>> I'd get a popup at the start of the day with all the general reminders and
>> then another popup just before an event, reminding me to do something right
>> then.
>>
>> Well,  I had to do a reintall and thought that I had everything back in
>> place.  It seems I don't.
>>
>> My general reminders are working fine.
>>
>> I can't get any timed reminders to popup.
>>
>> If I run the commands listed below the first command works as it should.
>>  The second command does not.  Specifically when I hit return in the
>> terminal, I get nothing.  No command prompt, just blank.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea of what could cause this?
>>
>> remind ~/Reminder-files/reminders-**general | gxmessage -buttons "OK:1"
>> -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16" -fg "#231" -bg yellow -wrap -title
>> "Don't Forget'" -file -
>>
>>
>> remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif
>> 16" -fg "#000" -bg "yellow" -wrap -title "HEY!" %s &' ~/Reminder-files/**
>> timedreminders
>>
>> --
>> Thank you,
>>
>> John
>>
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John