I use kalarm on SL6 and Fedora 21 with no problems. It needs KDE 
installed, but you don't have to use it as your window manager. I use 
MATE for that.

Ben

On 30/05/15 13:09, Tini wrote:
> i installed 'osmo' but it only gives audio beeps. how do i get a popup
> alert? would it be possible to install 'kalarm' on SL 6? or does it only
> run on kde?
>
> - tini
>
> --- Original Message ---
> From: ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Tini <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask],
> [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015
>
> On 05/29/2015 05:21 PM, Tini wrote:
>> is there a good reminder app in the repo? i need something that can give
>> daily, monthly, or weekly popups telling me to do something.
>>
>> for example, "on a certain date in the future call somebody about
>> something."
>>
>> i tried a program called 'calendar' but it didn't seem to install
>> correctly.
>>
>> Tini
>
> Hi Tini,
>
> For a simple calendar/task/contact manager, I adore Osmo.
>
> I got mine from pbone.net
>
> -T
>

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