Samuel Wales <address@hidden> wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > I did not realize that appt could not be used. > > On 2009-07-29, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote: > > Please provide more information on how you tried it. > > It works now. I pulled in the interim, but I don't know if that's the > reason. I tried it twice, so I don't think I missed the notification. > > However, the notification is in the minibuffer / echo area, and can > easily be unnoticed if you are typing, as it goes away immediately. > > These are just brainstorm ideas, but appt pops up a window for a > configurable number of seconds and raises the frame. > > The mode line can show the number of minutes overdue. > > type-break.el uses persistent minibuffer text and lets you control > whether you continue to be reminded. > > Raising the frame is important, but beyond that I am not sure which is best. > > As for sound, I have disabled all emacs sound, but this would be the > one thing that would be good to have it enabled for; not sure how to > enable it just for this pupose. Perhaps org could use let or flet at > notification time if a variable is non-nil. > If you like how your appointments are shown, you can use the appt display mechanism, by setting org-show-notification-handler to something like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (defun my-org-show-notification-handler (notification) (funcall appt-disp-window-function "0" (current-time-string) notification)) (setq org-show-notification-handler (function my-org-show-notification-handler)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- HTH, Nick
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