Remind does not work well on XFCE

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

I have successfully used remind for a long time together with KDE, but
now that I am using XFCE, I am experiencing a problem: the window of
the reminder

REM Friday AT 22:10 RUN xmessage -center "I am trying this"
REM Friday AT 22:10 RUN beep

does not pop up.

I have issued the command

xmessage -center "I am trying this"

in the console and the window pops up correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul