gnome reminder

[Ylan Segal]

Dimitri Mallis wrote:
> is there a program the can just be a reminder only, not bundeled up
> with a e-mail client or anything like that. so that i could input
> things like:
> 
> 13:00 - eat lunch
> 15:00 - go to gym
> 17:00 - call billy-bob
> 
> & then it will ringe the system bell & shake the sceen untill i press
> a OK button
> 
> thanks
> 

You can use cron: (from the cron manual):

"cron -- daemon to execute scheduled commands "

or at:

"at,  batch,  atq, atrm - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution"

Now, the command can be anything you want, including your own scripts.
You can use zenity for GUI remainders (don't know about bells and screen
shaking):

"zenity is a program that will display GTK+ dialogs, and return (either
in the return code, or on standard output) the users input. This allows
you to present information, and ask for information from the user, from
all manner of shell scripts".

That would be a good choice for simple scheduling. If you start craving
for "snooze" function or more complicated functionality, I would suggest
looking at sunbird or Kornanizer which you can use without email client
bundling.

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Ylan

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