On 12/30/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama(a)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