i know back int he day one of the admins on a solaris farm i dealt with spent so much time on hsi servers he created a chron job that used wall to splash his "admin" server based on an events calendar he created as a flat file... was some neat shell scripting about 90% was over my head at the time. id still say 80% still is :-) On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > Tomboy is another package, that has both a GUI and CLI interface > (tomboycli) > > Look at the reminder plugin also. > > Kevin > > > > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 10:02 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: >> From: joe@actionline.com >> > (1) First, what would the PLUG brain rust >> >> I *like* that typo. >> >> > ideally, I think I would like to have a command line >> > shell script where on the command line, I could just type: >> > $ remember "Dr. appointment Jan 25 at 12 pm" >> > And 24-hours before that date/time, a small, bright-yellow >> > window would pop up on the top left corner of my desktop with >> > that message. >> >> This works in KDE 3.5; the syntax is different in KDE 4, but I don't *have* >> KDE 4 on this machine. >> >> shell:~$ xhost +local: >> (only have to do that once) >> shell:~$ at 10am Jul 31 >> at> export DISPLAY=0:0 >> at> dcop --user YOUR_USERNAME --all-sessions knotes KNotesIface newNote >> Remember "Remember this here text" >> at> ^D >> >> Wrap some shell around that, so you can just do "remember.sh 10am Jul 31 >> 'Remember this'".  Simple, if you're running KDE 3.x. >> >> (What *have* they replaced DCOP with in KDE 4, anyway?  It's useful enough >> that they had to have invented something like it....) >> >> > (2) When I click on the digital clock on my start line, >> > an image like this: http://www.upquick.com/temp/calendar.jpg >> > appears and I can't find any explanation for why there are >> > different colored boxes around some dates, nor what the icon >> > in the lower left corner does, not what the up/down arrows in >> > the bottom right corner are for, nor what any other functions >> > of this clock do. >> >> The colored dates are holidays in your locale.  See how Christmas, New Year's >> Day, and Groundhog Day are colored?  Which WM/DE are you using?  The analogous >> icons/arrows do stuff in the clock/calendar in KDE 3.5. >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss