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
>
next prev parent 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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