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[Discuss] cron notifications to GUI front end



One idea I had was to write a small GUI that would cancel any currently
scheduled shutdown and reschedule and notify the user when the shutdown is
imminent. If the user logs off, the shutdown would still be in effect.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:28 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a crontab task to shutdown my system at a specific time each
> evening. Shutdown notifications come to terminal windows that are open.
> However, When I am logged in and using Atom and Glade to work with some
> code, I miss the notification and the system shuts down. What I would like
> to do is to write a small GUI GTK3 task pop up in my face so I can stop the
> shutdown. One possibility is to write a startup task when I log in. So, I
> am looking at ideas.
>
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