Re: [O] Notifications-notify for org-mode scheduled items?

[Nick Dokos]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> I was actually just playing with this. If you don't mind adding your whole 
>> daily schedule to the notify list, you can use
>>
>> (org-agenda-to-appt)
>>
>> Unrelated to agenda, there is (appt-add)
>>
>> As far submitting just a single item from the agenda for a pop-up reminder, 
>> I'm still at a loss.
>> - Tory
>>
>> Leo Ufimtsev <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> I would like to receive desktop notifications (1* e.g below) for scheduled 
>>> items. 
>>> E.g if I schedule like this:
>>>
>>> * Make Coffee 
>>>   SCHEDULED: <2015-03-02 Mon 01:30>
>>>
>>> Then I would like a desktop notification to pup up at 1:30 telling me to 
>>> make coffee.
>>>
>>> I saw the org-notify package, but besides this post:
>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/59339
>>> I didn't see any documentation on it, making it somewhat tricky to 
>>> configure. 
>>>
>>> I'd be willing to spend time figuring out the package, but I'm wondering, 
>>> has someone got something like this to work already?
>>> And if so, would you be willing to share a 'high-level' overview? (I'd be 
>>> happy to figure out the details).
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>> 1* I get a desktop notification if I run this command:
>>> (notifications-notify
>>>            :title "Title"
>>>            :body "This is <b>important</b>."
>>>            :actions '("Confirm" "I agree" "Refuse" "I disagree")
>>>            :on-action 'my-on-action-function
>>>            :on-close 'my-on-close-function)
>>> ref:
>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Desktop-Notifications.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Leo Ufimtsev | Intern Software Engineer @ Eclipse Team
>
> There is a FAQ entry with a couple of pointers, one to an ancient
> posting of mine (I still use that mechanism seven years later :-)) and one
> to a more refined setup by Russell Adams (using zenity):
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#automatic-reminders
>
> Russel's entry in org-hacks is followed by a similar entry by Sarah
> Bagby using terminal-notifier on OS X.


... and I just noticed that after those two, there is a posting by
Richard Riley, using gnome-osd.