On 12/30/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> 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