Remind does not work well on XFCE

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 12/30/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

>From where are you running this?  I'd guess that your script doesn't
have the access rights to your X server.  You'd likely need to set
xhost first.

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