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- PLAN(1L) PLAN(1L)
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- NAME
- plan - interactive X/Motif calendar and day planner
- pland - daemon for _p_l_a_n
- notifier - X/Motif text displayer for _p_l_a_n
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- SYNOPSIS
- ppllaann [-h] [-d] [-v] [-t [D]] [-s] [-f] [-k]
- ppllaann [mmdd]hhmm [_m_e_s_s_a_g_e]*
- ppllaanndd [-kK]
- nnoottiiffiieerr [-hdv123] [-t_t_i_t_l_e] [-i_i_c_o_n_t_i_t_l_e] [file]
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- DESCRIPTION
- ppllaann is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. It displays a month calendar
- similar to xcal, but every day box is large enough to show appointments in
- small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments for that day can be
- listed and edited. This manual page describes the command line options of
- ppllaann. For information on how to use ppllaann, refer to the on-line help pages.
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- ppllaann has two modes: it starts up with a window in interactive mode if
- started without date/time string; with date/time on the command line it
- adds an appointment to the list. Only one interactive ppllaann per user can run
- at any time.
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- ppllaanndd is a daemon that watches for appointment triggers. The daemon is nor-
- mally started from your .sgisession or .xsession file. It puts itself in
- the background. If ppllaann is started, it checks for the existence of the dae-
- mon, and offers to start one if it can't find it.
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- nnoottiiffiieerr displays the standard input in a window, with appropriate titles
- and background colors. The only program that ever uses it is the daemon; it
- is a separate program only to keep the daemon small.
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- OPTIONS OF PLAN
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- --hh List available options.
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- --dd Print fallback X resources and exit. The output can be appended
- directly to the ~/.Xdefaults file for modification of the geometry,
- color, and font defaults.
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- --vv Print the program version and patchlevel and exit.
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- --tt [[DD]]
- Print a list of today's appointments to stdout. Don't start up
- interactive windows. The exit status is 0 if there are appointments on
- the specified date, and 1 otherwise. If a date D is specified, print
- appointments on that date. All standard date specifiers work:
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- --tt ++33 Print appointments in three days
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- --tt --11 Print yesterday's appointments
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- --tt ttoommoorrrrooww Print appointments for tomorrow
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- --tt tthhuurrssddaayy Print appointments for Thursday
-
- --tt 2255..1122.. Print appointments for Christmas, if 24-hour mode is
- selected
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- --tt 1122//2255 Print appointments for Christmas, if 12-hour mode is
- selected. 12/24 hour mode is selected with the Config
- pulldown in the main window.
-
- --ss Standalone, don't offer to start daemon if none exists. Without dae-
- mon, no appointment alarms and warnings will trigger. If a daemon hap-
- pens to exist, it is notified when the database changes, but no warn-
- ing is printed if it doesn't.
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- --ff Don't fork on startup. This is useful for debugging.
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- --kk If there appears to be another ppllaann running, start up anyway. This is
- useful if a /tmp/.plan<uid> file got accidentally left behind, and
- plan fails to check whether the older plan still exists. This option
- is largely obsolete in version 1.2.
-
- [[mmmmdddd]]hhhhmmmm [[mmeessssaaggee]]**
- Add an appointment at mm/dd hh:mm (month/day hours:minutes). If mmdd
- is not specified, today's date is used. The message, which should be
- quoted if it contains shell metacharacters, is used as note string. No
- menus will start up. No option may be specified.
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- OPTIONS OF PLAND
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- --kk If another daemon exists, kill it and restart.
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- --KK (cap-K) If another daemon exists, kill it and exit.
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- OPTIONS OF NOTIFIER
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- --hh List available options.
-
- --dd Print fallback X resources and exit. The output can be appended
- directly to the ~/.Xdefaults file for modification of the geometry,
- color, and font defaults.
-
- --vv Print the program version and patchlevel and exit.
-
- --11 Set the window background color to green (early warning).
-
- --22 Set the window background color to yellow (late warning).
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- --33 Set the window background color to red (alarm). This is the default.
-
- --tt_t_i_t_l_e
- Set the title string above the message text (which is read from
- stdin).
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- --ii_i_c_o_n_t_i_t_l_e
- Set the icon title string that is printed below the mwm/4Dwm icon.
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- In addition to these options, plan and notifier support the usual X options
- -iconic and -geometry.
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- FILES
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- Below, DIR and LIB refer to the installation directories specified at the
- beginning of the Makefile when the programs were compiled. Both are
- /usr/local/bin by default. These are the directories where ppllaann and ppllaanndd
- first search for executables and plan.help; next, $PLAN_PATH and $PATH are
- searched, and finally, a built-in search path that also contains "." as its
- last item.
-
- ~~//..ddaayyppllaann
- Database with all public entries and configuration options of ppllaann.
- See plan(4) for details.
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- ~~//..ddaayyppllaann..pprriivv
- Database with all private entries.
-
- ~~//..hhoolliiddaayy
- Definition of holidays. See the help text for the "Define Holiday"
- popup menu that can be installed with the Holiday pulldown.
-
- //ttmmpp//..ppllaannUUIIDD
- Lockfile that contains the PID of ppllaann. Used to prevent multiple ppllaann
- instances, and to send HUP signals to if a non-interactive ppllaann invo-
- cation changed the database. UID is the user's numerical user ID.
-
- //ttmmpp//..ppllaannddUUIIDD
- Lockfile that contains the PID of the ppllaanndd daemon. Used to prevent
- multiple daemons, and to send HUP signals to if the database changed
- for any reason. UID is the user's numerical user ID.
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- ppllaann
- The ppllaann program.
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- LLIIBB//ppllaanndd
- The ppllaanndd daemon. It must be in the BIN or LIB directory, or in one of
- the directories in one of the search paths.
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- nnoottiiffiieerr
- The nnoottiiffiieerr program. It must be in the BIN or LIB directory, or in
- one of the directories in one of the search paths.
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- ppllaann..hheellpp
- The online help texts used by ppllaann. It must be in the BIN or LIB
- directory, or in one of the directories in one of the search paths.
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Thomas Driemeyer <thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de>
- Please send all complaints, comments, bug fixes, and porting experiences to
- me. Always include your plan version as reported by "plan -v" in your mail.
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