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How can I get Remind to generate a Notify-send popup at startup?

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Re: How can I get Remind to generate a Notify-send popup at startup?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2014, 03:41:20 AM »
 

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I actually meant the Remind calendar program. I would like it to popup all my reminders for the day at startup. I know it can do time reminders with gxmessage as follows: remind -z -k'gxmessage -title "reminder" %s &' ~/.reminders &. But I would like to use notify-send instead of gxmessage.
 

Re: How can I get Remind to generate a Notify-send popup at startup?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2014, 03:58:12 AM »
 

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Open a terminal and do:

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leafpad /home/user/.config/reminder.sh
replace user with your username.

add the following to the file:

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#!/bin/bash
sleep 3
echo "This is my reminder" | xargs -0 notify-send

save and close the file.
Then in the same terminal do:

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chmod +x /home/user/.config/reminder.sh
replace user with your username.
Then do Menu, Settings, Session and Startup, Application Autostart tab.
Click on +Add in Name and Description put My Reminder in Command put:

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sh /home/user/.config/reminder.sh
click Ok, then Close.
 

How can I get Remind to generate a Notify-send popup at startup?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2014, 03:04:30 AM »
 

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How can I get remind to generate a notify-send popup at startup?
 

 

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