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From: Erwin Panen <erwinpanen@fastmail.fm>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: public-emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@lo.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Alarms in orgmode
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:18:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF45A52.9090403@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5sbzrxd.fsf@mundaneum.com>

Hi Sébastien,

Un grand merci!
Big thank you - I'll try this out.

Erwin

Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Erwin,
> 
> Erwin Panen wrote:
>> I was looking to set an audible alarm or at least display a message of some
>> kind. Google brought me no results, apart from capabilities that are within
>> Emacs itself, namely the diary & appointments.
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Appointments.html
>>
>> Can anyone point me to how to do this, if possible at all.
>> (I'm on windows environment, but interested in Linux too.)
> 
> The following works for me (yes, I know, I should clean a bit) under Ubuntu at
> least.
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     (require 'org-agenda)
> 
>     ;; Insinuate appt
>     (require 'appt)
>     (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
>     (org-agenda-to-appt)
>     ;; When use 'r' (rebuild agenda) reload appt
>     (add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook (lambda ()
>                                       (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
>                                       (org-agenda-to-appt)))
>     (setq appt-audible t)
>     (setq appt-display-format 'echo)
> 
>     ;; turn appointment checking on
>     (appt-activate 1)
> 
>     ;; time in minutes before an appointment that the warning begins
>     (setq appt-message-warning-time 15)  ; 12
> 
>     ;; number of minutes to wait between checking the appointment list
>     (setq appt-display-interval 5)  ; 3
> 
>     ;; update appt each time agenda opened
>     (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook 'org-agenda-to-appt)
> 
>     (when window-system
>       (setq appt-display-format 'window)
> 
>       ;; FIXME Check `notify-send' (in `libnotify-bin' Ubuntu package) is installed
>       (defun rgr/org-display (min-to-app new-time msg)
>         (shell-command
>          (concat "notify-send "
>                  "-i /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/status/appointment-soon.png "
>                  "'Appointment' "
>                  "'" msg "'")))
>       ;; TODO For Windows users: use todochicku.el and the snarl notifier
> 
>       (setq appt-disp-window-function (function rgr/org-display)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Take what's of use for you from the above.
> 
> Best regards,
>   Seb
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-05 14:46 Alarms in orgmode Erwin Panen
2009-11-06 13:47 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-11-06 17:18   ` Erwin Panen [this message]
2013-06-12 13:03   ` Rene

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