On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:08:21 -0800
Steve Dum dijo:
> A field may be an asterisk (*), which always stands for
>``first-last''.
Ah! That's what I missed!
The new line (for tomorrow) is:
0 9 22 * * MAILTO="" DISPLAY=:0.0 gxmessage -font "Junicode 24"
Pay T-Mobile
That sho
Gotta love cron syntax. The ease of edlin combined with the readability of
perl.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 4:08 PM Steve Dum wrote:
> it's been so long since I fiddled with cron but from man 5 crontab
>
> The
> time and date fields are:
>
>field allowed values
it's been so long since I fiddled with cron but from man 5 crontab
The
time and date fields are:
field allowed values
- --
minute 0–59
hour 0–23
day of month 1–31
> now I have to figure out why '* * 21 * *' repeats the message every 60
> seconds.
because that first '*' tells cron to repeat an action once every minute of the
hour, and the second '*' tells it to repeat the action every hour of the day.
Pick an hour you want the message to appear, and repl
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
If you have Thunderbird installed for email, its optional Lightning
Calendar has a versatile events feature which has a reminder feature.
Something I like about it: when the reminder box pops up, I can choose
to Dismiss it, or Snooze it for a specified amount of time. A reminder
can be very des
Have you considered Google calendar? You could set a recurring event and a
notice that goes to email, and your phone.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:37 PM 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 o
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.
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- David Fleck
--- Original Message ---
On Monday, December 19th, 2022 at 10:21 PM, John Jason Jordan
wrote:
> I need an little applicatio
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
