rich@Rice.EDU (Richard Murphey) (06/24/89)
In article <3517@ncar.ucar.edu>, morreale@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) writes: > > 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 ??) :-) ... > > Peter W. Morreale > Nat'l Center for Atmos. Research, Scientific Computing Division > morreale@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1293 > ~ The `remind' application which is part of the InterViews distribution does exactly this. Here's the top of the man page: NAME remind - a simple reminder service SYNOPSIS remind [ time ] [ message ] DESCRIPTION Remind implements a simple reminder service similar to calendar(1), but uses alert(1) instead of mail(1). Rem- inders can be specified from the command line, or remind can extract information from a file in the user's home direc- tory. In the latter case, remind first looks for the file reminders, then for the file calendar. You can get the interviews distribution free from interviews.stanford.edu using anonymous ftp. Your friendly neighborhood Xod :-) Rich Murphey Electrical Engineering Rice University rich@rice.edu
pjs@basalt.dec.com (Philip Schneider) (06/24/89)
>In article <3517@ncar.ucar.edu>, morreale@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) writes: > > 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 ??) :-) When I used to use X10, I used an xclock with an alarm feature; I think it was a version Ed Moy built, based on Tony Della Ferra's (sp?) original xclock. I ported it to X11 a while ago, and it seems to work pretty well. If anyone wants a copy, just let me know. Also, many thanks to all the folks who sent me xfish sources. I've found and fixed some bugs that made xfish fail to run correctly on some servers. Again, if anyone wants a copy, send e-mail. - Philip Philip J. Schneider | pjs@decwrl.dec.com DEC Advanced Technology Development | decwrl!pjs 100 Hamilton Avenue | (415)853-6538 Palo Alto, CA 94301 | (415)386-8232