On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 17:25 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:25, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:08 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I want to schedule a reminder to myself, until I develop the habit of > > > performing certain actions. The simplest way, I think would be a script > > > to open a terminal window then echo the reminder. How can I tell the > > > script to open the terminal? > > > > ---- > > is this a trick question? > > > > kconsole # kde console app > > gnome-terminal # gnome terminal > > xterm # another terminal > > > Not a trick question. In a terminal > > konsole echo "reminder text" > > opens a console, but doesn't continue to the echo part. Presumably the two > commands have to be tied together in some way. > > I'll give kalarm a try, as Carroll suggested. All the same, I'd like to know > how I could have done it. ---- $ cat test.txt echo "Hi there" $ konsole --noclose -e /bin/sh test.txt & takes only a few seconds of experimentation Craig
