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Ian Barton writes:
> You are correct. The new Ubuntu Notify OSD, which uses libnotify, 
> doesn't support things like text colour.
> 
> I am hacking together something which creates a gtk Tray Icon and uses a 
> standard gtk window for the notification. it's basically working, but I 
> need to make the gtk window look more like a Notify window and get a 
> grip on the rather complex way gtkTextBuffer marks up text.

Another possibility would be to use conky which draws on the root
window directly instead of on top of everything else.  You could have
the agenda constantly displayed then.  Conky does support full
colouring.

Whether this is useful for anybody or not is another story, of
course...