Timed-alert software

mpn · 03-24-2005, 04:14 PM

I am looking for a free or open-source piece of software that, after some set amount of time (e.g., 19 minutes) or at some set time (e.g., 15:00), will pop up a box with a specified message in it (e.g., "Pick up daughter.")

I'd prefer something lightweight--i.e., not something that is a part of OpenOffice or a similar gargantuan application.

Thank you very much,
- Mike Nolan

keefaz · 03-24-2005, 05:47 PM

These softwares are surelly already installed in your system, open a terminal and type :

Code:

at now + 1 minutes
at>xmessage -display:0 -center "Pick up daughter."
<ctrl + d>

You can use at like : ' at 16:00 ' instead of ' at now + time '
for repeated action, better is to use crontab though

mpn · 03-24-2005, 05:59 PM

Thanks. However, I'm looking for something more complex. What I have in mind now is a calendar-like GUI which, when you click on a date and time, allows you the option to set an event. And what if I wish to make the event happen every day at 16:30 or every Tuesday at 9:00? Setting a cron job is clumsy.

keefaz · 03-24-2005, 06:01 PM

Setting a cron job is one of the easier thing to do in Linux/Unix system

mpn · 03-24-2005, 06:38 PM

Sure, it's easy--unless I want to transfer these alert settings to five other systems. Also, I still think a calendar-like GUI would greatly simplify things if I want to add 10 or so events.

keefaz · 03-24-2005, 07:02 PM

To transfer the crontab to other system, just copy
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/<username> to other machines

crontab is just a plain text file, you can edit it with any text
editor you want, copy it everywhere you want