I've been looking for something that will remind me of upcoming events, similar to iCal in OS X.
Over the past few days, I tried out several of them, including Evolution. While I found that its timer works nicely, at least in the Linux version I've got on one of my other machines, the timer itself is only one of many features. I really don't need the address book and e-mail bits, so I was looking for something to run on FreeBSD that would just let me know if, say, it was time to switch on my TV to watch a movie.
It appears that Remind (deskutils/remind) might just be what I'm looking for. It's quite compact and the various dates and times are stored in a file that I could readily edit. I also added Wyrd (deskutils/wyrd) as an interface (which runs in Terminal, by the way) and I set things up that Remind opens a Gxmessage window (deskutils/gxmessage) to display the alerts. Using a suggestion from the Wyrd manual, I put a command in my account's .xinitrc file to start Remind whenever I log in.
So far, it appears that my setup works, though it took a few tries before it did. The only thing that would make it better is if I could get it to play a sound whenever the alert window appears. Doing this would be quite helpful as I'm sometimes away from my desk and hearing that sound would let me know of something that I need to be aware of.
Over the past few days, I tried out several of them, including Evolution. While I found that its timer works nicely, at least in the Linux version I've got on one of my other machines, the timer itself is only one of many features. I really don't need the address book and e-mail bits, so I was looking for something to run on FreeBSD that would just let me know if, say, it was time to switch on my TV to watch a movie.
It appears that Remind (deskutils/remind) might just be what I'm looking for. It's quite compact and the various dates and times are stored in a file that I could readily edit. I also added Wyrd (deskutils/wyrd) as an interface (which runs in Terminal, by the way) and I set things up that Remind opens a Gxmessage window (deskutils/gxmessage) to display the alerts. Using a suggestion from the Wyrd manual, I put a command in my account's .xinitrc file to start Remind whenever I log in.
So far, it appears that my setup works, though it took a few tries before it did. The only thing that would make it better is if I could get it to play a sound whenever the alert window appears. Doing this would be quite helpful as I'm sometimes away from my desk and hearing that sound would let me know of something that I need to be aware of.