[Remind-Fans] using remind with dropbox

[Dave Parker]

Sorry Reid, spelled your name wrong, and also missed replying to the users
group (I'm more used to google groups)

Matthias, I wasn't sure if your focus was on the single quote or the "accat"
command.  The way I showed actually did work the way I had it, but only if
the remind file was in the home folder (so I didn't think it was an issue of
the quote).  It took me a while to find any referrence to "accat" but it
seems to be used with some kind of engineering thing called Ansys, to
"Concatenate multiple areas in preparation for mapped meshing".  Is that
what you were referring to?



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Parker <cedardocster at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Remind-Fans] using remind with dropbox
To: Reid.Thompson at ateb.com


Thanks Ried,


On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson at ateb.com>wrote:

>
> try
> ln -s "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"
> ~/.homereminders-popups
>
>
> remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif
> 16"
>  -fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title  "here is a reminder
> for
>  you" %s&' ~/.homereminders-popups
>


I tried that, both at the terminal and in the startup bash script.  It
seemed to be indicating proper function when I did the command at the
terminal, but neither seemed to work in the end though, i.e. when I'd change
the file in the one longer path, the new reminder didn't pop up (and the
file in the home folder didn't change).  I may be misunderstanding what
you're suggesting though.

I'm thinking maybe I'll have to use realtime sync to just sync the two
files.  I'll look into Matthias's suggestion first though.