My wife has had pretty good luck with KAlarm, which seems to behave just as you specify. Not sure if KAlarm will work outside of KDE, though.
-- - David Fleck ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, December 19th, 2022 at 10:21 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > I need an little application that will pop up a reminder on the same > day of every month, and crucially, leave it on the screen until I > manually close the window. There are lots of notify tools, but they > just pop up a little notice for 10-20 seconds and then the notice > disappears. > > So far the only thing I have found is Remind, and its GUI tool, > Tkremind. I've installed both, and they run, but there is no > documentation other than a man page, which I can't figure out. That is, > I created a reminder, but it never appears, so clearly I haven't done > it right. > > The purpose is to pay a bill that comes due every month on the 20th, > and each month with a different amount. I could set up an auto-pay with > my bank, but not if the amount varies. The vendor also has an auto-pay > option, but to use it I have to give them my credit card number and > authorization to charge it for whatever they want. No thanks, I'm not > that stupid. > > I could probably figure out how to use cron, but cron needs to call a > program to do the announcement. Or at least I think it does. Cron is a > mystery to me. > > Surely there exists a simple, understandable reminder app. Any > suggestions?
