[Remind-Fans] Fwd: getting desktop popups on different systems

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I don't think this went through the first time....


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From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Subject: getting desktop popups on different systems
To: Remind Fans <remind-fans at lists.roaringpenguin.com>


Hi, all,

I have two desktop systems, one running OS/X leopard, and the other
running Ubuntu 11.04. I share my reminder files in a Dropbox folder
between the two system so they are always in sync.

Generally, I run the reminders for the day and pipe them into the
appropriate display program for each computer: growlnotify on the Mac,
gxmessage on Ubuntu. This works great either manually or via a cron
job. I run these with remind -q.

However, what doesn't work are timed reminders of appointments I may
have during the day. I can't quite figure out how to make it work so
that when a reminder pops, it gets displayed with the appropriate
program on each machine. Since each uses a different program, I can't
quite hardwire it into the reminder itself using RUN. I'd like to be
able to have a conditional that determines which OS is running
(possibly by querying uname) and set the program in the reminder file
itself. Any suggestions as to how I might do this?

Thanks,

Tamara