[Remind-Fans] Help with timed popup reminders

[Bob Paver]

John,

Yes. The modification of the file is what I meant. Glad you resolved the
problem.

Bob


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:36 AM, John Niendorf <john at jfniendorf.org> wrote:

> 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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