On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, lym...@ime.usp.br wrote:
> It's indicated that one can choose which command use to remind 
> option and, my first shot was something like

> /usr/bin/gcalcli remind 10 'gxmessage -display :0 -center -geometry 280x140 
> -title "Ding, Ding, Ding!" %s'

> It runs fine when I run it on command line but fails to work on my 
> crontab (and it used to). 

how does it fail?  I guess you might have got an email with failed cron run
output?

> Is it possible to revert to gxmessage as default 
> command? 

not sure if that would be preferable to diverge from upstream here...

any strong objective reason against notify-send?

> If not, can you give some adivce on hoe should be the entry on my 
> crontab? Currently it looks like 

> */10 * * * * /usr/bin/gcalcli remind 10 'gxmessage -display :0 -center 
> -geometry 280x140 -title "Ding, Ding, Ding!" %s'

please share first how it fails for you... I wonder if exclamation mark
somehow interferes

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