Best way to display reminders ? Thanks!

joe at actionline.com joe at actionline.com
Tue Jan 7 09:44:51 MST 2014


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 ;)


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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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