You might want to use the kdialog command instead of qdbus.

kdialog --msgbox "This is a reminder"

That will just pop up a window with your reminder, and it's built in to 
KDE rather than an extra package like qdbus.

Brian Cluff

On 01/07/2014 09:44 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Thanks Matt ... This is exactly what I was hoping to find.
> Haven't tried it yet, but I will asap.
> You are a genius (and a great friend ;)
>
>
> -----------
> Matt Graham wrote (in part)
>> If you want to go old-school, it should be relatively easy to put a
>> thing together with at and qdbus:
>>
>> xhost +local:
>> at 9:30am Jan 22
>> at> qdbus org.kde.knotes /KNotes newNote DoThisThing "Remember to do
>> that thing you said you'd do on Jan 22"
>> at> Ctrl-D
>>
>> This will pop up a knote titled DoThisThing reminding you to do a thing
>> on Jan. 22 at 9:30am.  knotes/dbus don't seem to allow you to specify
>> where the note shows up, but if you want, you can use wmctrl to move the
>> note to the top-left corner with--
>>
>> wmctrl -r "DoThisThing" -e '-1,0,0,-1,-1'
>>
>> (Takes window with title DoThisThing, keeps gravity the same, moves it
>> to 0 x 0 y (top left corner), keeps the x dimension the same, keeps the
>> y dimension the same)
>
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