[Remind-Fans] Daemon mode and normal reminders

[Paul Pelzl]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:52:20PM +0100, Lars Stokholm wrote:
> Only problem is that I also want to make use of normal (non-timed)
> reminders like this:
> 
> REM 24 feb Casper's birthday (perhaps with a ONCE-keyword?)
> 
> I was expecting it to just show up when I started X, but I see from
> the manual, that by using -z (daemon mode), this is not the case:
> Normal reminders are not triggered.
> 
> What can I do about this?

If you just want to see a list of the day's reminders whenever you start
up X, you can just invoke "remind -q" from your .xinitrc (possibly with
the -a option).  I use a cron job to automatically spawn such a popup
window every morning:
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind_use_case_1#Generating_the_Message_Windows

Paul