Remind does not work well on XFCE

[Lonni J Friedman]

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

It might.  I don't use KDE, so I have no idea what kind of hackery
they've employed.


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