Xlrem (X)(L)ogin(Rem)inder v1.0 What it is: Displays messages in a Motif dialog. There are two types of messages personal and system. You can use xlrem-admin program to manage these two files. It's good if you want to remind yourself something next time you log in. So it's best used in the .Xclients or .xsession. It can also be used by sysadmins if they want to have a nice Motif dialog box display the daily messages and news to users. You need Motif 1.2 or higher or Lesstif for this to compile. It was tested on Linux/x86 (Mootif 2.01), Linux/Alpha (Lesstif 0.81), SunOS 5.5 on SPARCserver-1000 To install, edit the Makefile, type "make" and copy the resulting xlrem and xlrem-admin binary to some place in your path. (You can actually type "make install" as wel, and that will install the manpage too) Then put some reminders into a file called .xlrem (you can use the xlrem-admin tool) in your home directory, and add xlrem to the .Xclients or .xinitrc or wherever you start clients for X. There are several resources and coresponding command line options that set the behavior: (of xlrem) Xlrem*Verbose: True | This sets if xlrem will notify you -verbose | if no reminders are present | otherwise it dies quietly | (default is False) Xlrem*NoSystem: True | This sets if xlrem will ignore the -nosystem | system reminders file. | (default is False) Xlrem*NoPersonal: True | This sets if xlrem will ignore the -nopersonal | personal reminders file | (default is False) xlrem-admin tool also has an option: Xlrem*System: True | Edit system reminders file -system | (default is False) | if not set it will edit the personal | reminders The default filenames are ~/.xlrem for the personal file and /etc/xlrem for the system. (This can be changed in the Makefile) When displaying the system reminders the user cannot delete these reminders. If you are editing the files by hand: The reminder files are regular text files, one line per reminder. If you need to put returns in your reminder, put ^A instead (ASCII value 1). Xlrem will replace that with a newline. I did this program to learn Motif and since I needed something similiar and the only reminder program I looked at was 1) ugly, 2) couldn't do this. I'm sure there is a program that does exactly this, and probably better, but ... oh well ... who cares. New in 1.0: xlrem doesn't segfault when the system file is not writable (well it didn't always crash) ... It all compiles without warnings on an Alpha. And best of all it's tested with Lesstif 0.81, this needed some changes. Also now the label on xlrem window is gone and we change the title, this was neccessary for it to work on the Sun. New in 0.99.0: a bit of code cleanup in xlrem and split into more files and I also added the xlrem-admin tool to add/delete/edit reminders. Also new is the fact that when you have the write permission to the system file you can delete system the reminders from xlrem. Basically this is the final release. Unless someone actually asks for more (somebody except me would have to use this damn thing:) Though I might make it 1.0 release if it actually all works. New in 0.91.0: -geometry now actually works as the Reminders dialog is the actual toplevel window (kewl ain't it). I added a help -help message and a manpage (well .. ok it sucks but oh well) and there is a slight change on the Reminders dialog and (tada!) it will actually COMPILE out of the box! (unlike 0.90.0) Limitations: Max of 100 reminders and 3000 chars per reminder (edit xlrem.h and recompile to change this. Bugs: No bugs, just "features" :) the bugs are that the resizing of the xlrem-admin window doesn't always work as expected, and that the list doesn't change size. This program is distributed under GNU General Public License, read ./COPYING file for copyright information. George Lebl <jirka@5z.com>
