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

[Daniel Martins]

> When my X server starts up, a script launches the command

Please, where I launch the command ?

remind -z -k'gxmessage -title "reminder" %s &' ~/.reminders &

To put it on the .cshrc or .profile files seems to be a not very smart
option due to the many xterms I use ...


2005/9/27, Paul Pelzl <pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu>:
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:34:09PM +0200, Martin Stubenschrott wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I really love the combination of remind and the excellent wyrd front
> end.
>
> Glad you like it!
>
>
> > 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?
>
> There's nothing like this built into Wyrd, but Remind itself offers some
> features that can provide alarm popups. When my X server starts up, a
> script launches the command
>
> remind -z -k'gxmessage -title "reminder" %s &' ~/.reminders &
>
> This will generate a popup using gxmessage(1) whenever a timed reminder
> gets triggered. If I want some advance warning (say, 15 minutes), I can
> cause Remind to trigger early by setting a 'tdelta' in the AT clause:
>
> REM Sep 27 2005 AT 14:30 +15 MSG Do something
>
> (I should probably make a note about this strategy in the Wyrd
> documentation.)
>
>
> > Paul: do you prefer messages directly to you or discussion such things
> on the
> > remind mailing list?
>
> For questions like this, which could benefit a lot of users, I think
> it's good to use the mailing list.
>
> Paul
>
>
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