Reminders

[Scott Lambert]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:31:10PM +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 14:20, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au> writes:
> > 
> > > I am a very contented user of gnucash 1.8. The scheduled transactions
> > > work very well but there is no reminder function for bills as they draw
> > > near to payment date.
> > 
> > But there is! Go into Actions -> Scheduled Transactions -> Scheduled
> > Transaction Editor. Double-click on one of your transactions. In the
> > window that appears, there is an area called Options. Sounds like you
> > want to check the box that says "Remind me X days in advance."

This guy just wants instructions on how to start a terminal window on
Gnome login.  Sheesh.

What would be nice, for those of us who do not live in an accounting
package (You know...the average home user?) is to have a cron-able
script which inspects the data file for scheduled trasactions and pops
up a window, or sends an e-mail listing those transactions which within
remind me range.  It's basically a calendar(1) that reads gnucash data
files (xml files or sql query responces).  But that is way over and
above what this guy is asking for.

> Thank you very much Bill. I must not have explained well enough. What I
> am doing at the moment gives me my due bills without running gnucash.
> What you have reminded me of, which I must admit I do not use, gives me
> the bills only when I run gnucash and once I am in gnucash I can see at
> a glance all my bills etc.
> 
> If you can help me with how to cat my file as soon as Gnome starts
> without me starting a virtual terminal I would appreciate it.

Gnome 1.4 had a config I could find for setting certain programs to run
at start-up.  I can't seem to find it in Gnome 2.2.  Gnome 2.2 seems to
be greatly feature reduced from Gnome 1.4 from my perspective.  At least
they used some more standard keyboard shortcut mappings.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org      

<OT RANT buried beneath the sig.> 

GUI developers need to run OS/2, now eComStation for a few months and
then see if they don't decide that a fully OOUI environment really is
worth the effort to convert.  But it would probably take several hundred
man-years to do it, I understand.

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