Oops. Something is wrong with this line: * * 21 * * MAILTO="" DISPLAY=:0.0 gxmessage -font "Junicode 24" Pay T-Mobile
I expected it to pop up a message today (the 21st), and it did so, but 60 second later it opened up another one, and again every sixty seconds. I couldn't figure out how to shut down gxmessage. It's not in Top or Task Manager. Eventually I opened crontab again and put a # in front of the line, then saved it and exited from the editor. That did the job, but now I have to figure out why '* * 21 * *' repeats the message every 60 seconds. Steve, Thanks for the suggestion. I spent some time trying to figure out how to do it with cron and gxmessage. I added this line to crontab: * * 21 * * MAILTO="" DISPLAY=:0.0 gxmessage -font "Junicode 24" Pay T-Mobile That is, I set it at the 21st, because that's tomorrow, to see if cron pops up the message. If I do just the gxmessage part at the command line it pops up the message, with an 'OK' button to close the message, so it ought to work if I got the crontab line correct. Crossing fingers for tomorrow. :) On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:42:07 -0800 Steve Dum <dr.d...@frontier.com> dijo: >my ubuntu 22.04 release comes with a program called notify_send that >does what you request >it takes a -t n option to set the time it stays on screen and totally >ignores the parameter. >However it takes a urgency argument, -u critical seems to leave the >note on screen until you delete it. >notify-send -u critical "time to write that check" >seems to do what you want. But if you do more than 1 notify-send they >appear serially so you don't see the next one >until you close the current one. >looking at the online man page, it has tabs for every supported ubuntu >version so it's been around a while. >steve > >John Jason Jordan 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? >> >
