Best way to display calendar reminders ?

[Matt Graham]

On 2014-01-05 00:29, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> What would y'all suggest is the best way to set up date,
> time, and/or task reminders to display on my desktop?
> 
> Ideally, I would like small notes to pop-up (perhaps top
> left corner of my desktop) with specified lead time showing
> the date, time, and task title for each item that I schedule.

Are you looking for a new application?  Or are you already using an 
organizer/calendar application?  If you're using one, what is its name?  
If you're already using an organizer, it will have to be able to pop up 
notes itself or send events to another process.

KDE's korganizer (which should be available in Mint) says that it will 
send reminders for scheduled events.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to 
have any documentation available on 
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/ .

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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