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Using 'Reminder' with geektool

I recently read Mike Harris' post about his calendar utility called "remind." I've been trying it out and like it a lot. He mentions that he uses it with geektool. I've been trying to get it to work with geektool and am not having any luck. Can anyone give me some advice?

In terminal, "rem -c" displays my calendar just fine. In geektoo, "rem -c" give me nothing. Any suggestions?

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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Using GeekTool & remind

The shell that GeekTool spawns _isn't_ a login shell, so it never reads your configuration files. You'll need to give the full path to remind. Also, the `rem` script probably won't work, again because it launches remind, which is not in the default path.

So use something like `/usr/local/bin/remind -c ~/.reminders`.

 
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