Re: What is the simplest date reminder method?

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" <E>
> > 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.
>


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