What about 'wall' in conjunction with reminders using 'RUN' and with, of course, remind running in the background (with the -z switch)?
By the way, yeaGTD (www.duke.edu/~dgraham/yeaGTD can be run in a console as a convenient, text-based version of GTD. -Dan On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:42:45 +0000 (GMT), david cuthbertson wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a linux console terminal "blow a horn > and flash a message on the screen" X-less solution. > > After days of studying the man page, the forum > archives, and lots and lots of googling, the only > examples I found are for (g)xmessage, ie, > http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/private/remind-fans/2007/001320.html, > http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/about33819.html, which > work fine on my ubuntu desktop. However my ultra > portable asus eee only has a minimal debian sarge > install, plus just a few cli apps; without x-window > bloat it now boots in just 17 seconds. > > But no feasible solutions so far. I am relatively new > to bash, vim, screen, etc, but am willing to learn. > > I recently discovered remind because of my attention > deficit disorder. Exploring gtd on the command line, > led me to discover the joys of its seemingly > limitless, mind-boggling possibilities; hours and > hours of time wasting fun exploring its potential to > help me get things done. Gosh. Wow. > > Help? > > David > > > __________________________________________________________ > Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
