I want a GUI reminder ...

doublehp · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 473 Location: FRANCE

I know cron, gkrellm-reminder, remind .... I dont like them.

I want a GUI application (so that enlightenment can start it automatically at startup, same time as gkrellm and lircexec ... ) which reminds be at given time and date some events.

at given time, I want a GUI popup , plus some customisable command (play a file, beep, perform an action ... ).

Cron is not GUI, and can hardly open pops up (I know crontab -e / -u ).
gkrellm-reminder performs regular/frequent actions, (need start and end date), with just a popup, and a common action for all events, and the 'remind me later' feature is not practical. - too limited.

I dont want frequency, I want events.

reminder is a CLI, needs one configuration file per action, plus hardly launched automatically all reminds when starting X

Evolution have some calendar features, but takes 20M RAM at startup, too heavy, and shows large window what is useless if no events are to remind soon.

At the moment, I use Rox/note: small window, can be started by e16, one line per event, window self sefresises, does not show large stuff at start, BUT CAN NOT PERFORM ACTIONS. Plus it is daily based, when i want to be possible to custom action at given time.

I d like a pop up in the morning to remind to call friends for birthday, a count back of 3mn for the eggs, a remind tonight at 17:25 to call the restaurant to confirm reservation ... perform a wget by night, send an email (using the mail command) to somebody ... I dream of an all-in-one.

A also use wmtimer, but it can ONLY perform one action per instance .... too limited.

what eles to try ?

if nothing beter than all that, maybe I shall write a frontend to 'remind' ?
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ciaranm · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 4:07 am Post subject:

Uh, cron and xmessage?

codergeek42 · Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

Or cron and zenity...

Perhaps you may want to try something like gDeskCal or another calendaring deslet app?
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frilled · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:22 am Post subject:

I guess he needs the same thing I am looking for - something with a GUI to *enter* the reminders.

I used gkrellm-reminder, but since gkrellm started dying on me overnight I don't use it anymore. Now I am looking for a lightweight substitute. Like xfcalendar4 with clock times :-)

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taurus · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:22 am Post subject:

Personally, I haven't used it but woud xpad is what you are looking for?

ZZamboni · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject:

I currently use jpilot (http://jpilot.org/) as my calendar program. Even without a Palm device, it works quite well. It's light and simple, and supports arbitrary actions on alarms.

Another one I haven't tried, but which sounds interesting, is remind (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_remind.php).

Both are in portage.

frilled · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject:

frilled · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

ZZamboni · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject:

frilled · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

I'll try. But it looks like massive overkill :roll:

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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

If you use KDE you can try knotes... I think it does alarms.

frilled · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject:

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

If you want to install or you have installed Qt, then you can try s-notes. Its highly configurable (each note is individually configurable), but it leaves a small "icon" (probably 10x10) on your desktop. Its much better than xpad IMHO.

There is also provision for alarms.

bookstack · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 245

I think this is typical PIM application:
TODO, Appointment, EMail.

Just grab PIM suite. korganizer, yes, kde dependency.

frilled · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:23 am Post subject:

Hehe, I am rather confident it will not leave an icon on my desktop (I might be wrong though), because there's xplanet on the root window and nothing else...

And, bookstack, I tried korganizer once ... it is a nice effort and all ... but notification just didn't work (I have no clue why) and it was *way* over the top.
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wjholden · l33t Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 826 Location: Augusta, GA

http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000116

frilled · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:40 pm Post subject:

frilled · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject:

Hmm, does anybody have this running under XFCE4? It doesn't seem to go into the tray

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wjholden · l33t Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 826 Location: Augusta, GA

Maybe this will help? I don't run XFCE so I dunno,

frilled · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 4:22 am Post subject:

Hehe, I do have the tray and I know it works with KDE apps. I tried kbiff which is almost nice. kalarm does strange things (it runs with one zombie process), but works anyway. So I don't care about the tray. Although the zombie is ugly.
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doublehp · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 473 Location: FRANCE

It's now over two years I am using Rox/Memo.

I really love it.

You can eventually install it using 0launch/0install.

It still has bugs and misbehaviours, but it does 90% of what I need.

It shows up on screen ad a vertical list of topics, one line per tip, each line starting with the date. The date format varies depending on required precision. Out-year tips use month-year format, in year are in day-month, and, in day just give the time. Tips can pop-out on expire time (or not). All past tips are always shown. Future tips are shown or hidden depending on configuration: you can limit by time, or number, the quantity of future notes to show.

The title of a tip is always the first line of the memo.

Limitations and bugs are:
- mouse vertical scroll not supported (you have to drag the bar)
- pops up are always shown in bottom right corner of screen, no way to configure this; since I am using 4 screens with xinerama, and they are reparted lineraly, my eye rarely catches messages on the bottom right corner; having a choice to have pop-ups at 9 critical positions would help (corners, middle of borders, or center of screen).
- no way to set up specific sound, action, or command to execute on specific tips; only a system bell, that's all.
- strange behaviour when dragging text to, or from a Memo Windows (maybe a Python specific problem)
- seems hardly portable to mobile phones and palms
- no synchronisation (I never dared to alter the files while the software was running).

plus:
- very light
- very small
- very simple, and easy to get on
- easy to duplicate a note: open it twice, then save it twice

- no way to remotely save an open and modified note.
- funny tea timer since mid 2007.
- calendar format depends on locale
- very handy calendar

facts, that will be + or - depending on taste:
- python script, thus, heavy dep, but, if you already had Python, then Memo itself will take few more disk space
- no theme
- not enough customisations possible
- no autosave of notes il edit mode, what is a problem when system or X crash, or shutdown while forgot to save a note, or clic unfortunately on the close button of main window by error.
- main windows can be resized; the size is defined by Memo: height depends on options, width is fixed to the largest topic

With Enlightenment, you can choose to have it always on top, or always below.

Try it for a fe days, it worth it.
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SeaTiger · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:21 am Post subject:

Depend on if you use thunderbird and check your email in the morning or not. If so, you can just use lightning extension for thunderbird and don't have to run additional program.

doublehp · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 473 Location: FRANCE

junksiu i tried it, and, it just ... did not do it. TB is launched automatically, and runs 24/24 when my station is up, but when my computer does not have network I disable it (broken LAN, laptop on road...); those days, memo would get disabled on the shot. Fat Rox/Memo is in seperate windows is nice for me. I stick it on my "status screen", by side of gkrellm and Pidgin buddy list

I just would love to have pop-ups come out in THAT screen too :S

Sunbird is too heavy. Rox/Memo really has the wm feel I love so much. I just prefer E17 over window-maker and blackbox

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spupy · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject:

http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/Alarm_Clock
But it is not in portage.

Have a look at gnome-schedule. It's a GTK front-end for cron and at. I use it and have entered in it a template which uses zenity for dialog reminders.
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easy target · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 134

There is a nice app I can suggest - rainlendar. It's a desktop calendar showing "todos" and "events", it's really customizable, skinable, supports iCalendar format. Of course it supports unicode and locatlization. Original post was about GUI app - rainlendar is GUI. It also has an alarm - plays a selected file, but as far as I know it doesn't popup messages.

It's in sunrise overlay.

http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php