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

My fault here: I was not using any .xinitrc file; with KDE, I used a
script in Autostart directory, in .kde.

Paul