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? It might. I don't use KDE, so I have no idea what kind of hackery they've employed.
My fault here: I was not using any .xinitrc file; with KDE, I used a script in Autostart directory, in .kde. Paul
