Remind does not work well on XFCE

[Paul Smith]

On 12/30/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks, Lonni. It works fine on KDE; only on XFCE the problem occurs;
therefore, the xhost server is probably well configured; or does the
xhost server configuration changes with the desktop manager?

Paul