David Greaves wrote: > Kahlil Johnson wrote: > >> I also wonder if alarmd can be used for more than the alarm >> functionality in N800. >> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Jason Edgecombe <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Kahlil Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> So i asked a while ago about tasks and scheduling features of maemo, >>>> they told me that there was some missing component that was impossible >>>> for crond or at. >>>> >>>> >>> There is a program called alarmd which provides scheduled events. Is that >>> what you want? >>> > > If I go to the clock and set an alarm it plays a sound at a certain time. > It does this even if the N800 is powered off. In fact, IIRC, it pops up a little > window asking whether it should turn on. > > So it's do-able. > > Maybe someone should investigate and create a wiki page? > > If it is alarmd doing this then it would be nice if it could be integrated into > something like cron/at and into the qpe calendar app. > > google for alarmtool. it's command-line front-end for alarmd. It's in the chinook extras repo. Using alarmtool, you can run a command, play a sound or send a dbus event at a certain time with repeating events. It would be great if it was integrated with more things, like GPE. Jason _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
