[comp.windows.x] alarm clock client? / splitting up comp.windows.x

morreale@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) (06/24/89)

Does anyone know of a "alarm" clock client available for X?  I would 
find such a tool very useful.   Something which a user could set and 
have it pop up a window with a user defined message.

    How about it X-Gods?  (Xods ??) :-)


I would also like to throw my two cents in on the recent discussion of 
splitting up comp.windows.x.  I'm all in favor of it.  Currently I 
have two days worth of net-news (on comp.win.x, alone) to catch up on 
and this amounts to 48 messages.  

I find myself junking messages (sometimes) that I probably should read, 
but I can't keep up.  My wife is about ready to take a hammer to the 
terminal I have at home.  I would much prefer a "beginner's" newsgroup 
for X.   

-PWM

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Peter W. Morreale                   
Nat'l Center for Atmos. Research, Scientific Computing Division       
morreale@ncar.ucar.edu  (303) 497-1293
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graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) (06/24/89)

>Does anyone know of a "alarm" clock client available for X? 

The DECwindows clock does this...among other things. 


Christopher Graham          
Digital Equipment Corp            
Ultrix Resource Center
New York                            

tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) (06/26/89)

> *Excerpts from xpert: 23-Jun-89 alarm clock client? / spli.. Peter*
> *Morreale@AMES.ARC. (884)*

> Does anyone know of a "alarm" clock client available for X?  I would
> find such a tool very useful.   Something which a user could set and
> have it pop up a window with a user defined message.


The Andrew "console" program provides this capability, along with other handy
features, like mail and print queue monitoring (to name just a couple).

You can find Andrew on the X11R3 contrib tape under contrib/toolkits/andrew.

Tom Crockett

ICASE
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering

M.S. 132C                               e-mail:  tom@icase.edu
NASA Langley Research Center            phone:  (804) 864-2182
Hampton,  VA  23665-5225
    
    

becker@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Tim Becker) (06/26/89)

   Does anyone know of a "alarm" clock client available for X?  I would 
   find such a tool very useful.   Something which a user could set and 
   have it pop up a window with a user defined message.

I wrote an xremind program some time ago.  I reads the invoker's
reminder file and displays the message in a little window at the right
time.  If anyone wants it, I'd be glad to send it (or post it to
comp.sources.x).

Tim Becker.
becker@cs.rochester.edu