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From: ken@visix.com (Ken Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: The batch and at commands
Message-ID: <1991May15.020119.25071@visix.com>
Date: 15 May 91 02:01:19 GMT
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In article <1991May13.162921.28739@spider.co.uk> trm@spider.co.uk (Tom McBeath) writes:
...
   I have just been trying to get "xalarm" working, it seems a nice
   little utility and was written by a MIPS engineer. Everything
   seemed to be going fine until an alarm was due and nothing happened. 
...

I have found that xalarm runs a separate program (xalarm_display) and
that it needs to know what display to use. Put the following line in
your .Xdefaults file:

xalarm*displayProgram:	/usr/X11/bin/xalarm_display -display <your_display>

This is a hack and won't work in the general case (xalarm should
include the string '-display ...'  or something. But it works if you
don't switch displays often.

Cheers,
Ken


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