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#1 2008-04-23 12:49 pm
- lord funk
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Start iCal every morning - harder than it sounds
I learned launchd in Leopard, and I run it on my desktop which stays on 24/7. I use it to open iCal every morning so I can see my daily schedule. That's not the problem.
The problem is, I want iCal to open every morning on my laptop, which goes to sleep every night. There has to be a way to do this.
I know you can schedule activities to occur when the computer wakes from sleep. But I don't want iCal opening every time I open the laptop - just once each day the first time I wake the computer. Is this possible?
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#2 2008-04-23 1:15 pm
- Fracai
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Re: Start iCal every morning - harder than it sounds
Why don't you just leave it running all the time?
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#3 2008-04-24 9:10 am
- lord funk
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Re: Start iCal every morning - harder than it sounds
Fracai wrote:
Why don't you just leave it running all the time?
I'd rather not, for a few reasons.
Well it turns out that in Leopard, launchd runs scheduled items immediately after waking from sleep. In Tiger, the scheduled event is offset by the time the computer was asleep.
Maybe this will work: how do I run scripts when the computer wakes up? Maybe I can test to see what time it is first, and if it's in the morning iCal will open.
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#4 2008-04-24 9:36 am
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Re: Start iCal every morning - harder than it sounds
lord funk wrote:
Fracai wrote:
Why don't you just leave it running all the time?
I'd rather not, for a few reasons.
Well it turns out that in Leopard, launchd runs scheduled items immediately after waking from sleep. In Tiger, the scheduled event is offset by the time the computer was asleep.
Maybe this will work: how do I run scripts when the computer wakes up? Maybe I can test to see what time it is first, and if it's in the morning iCal will open.
Make an iCal event that opens iCal every morning at a certain time. Make the event repeat every day. If you don't want to see the same event everyday put it in a separate calendar in ical
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#5 2008-04-24 12:13 pm
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Re: Start iCal every morning - harder than it sounds
Have iCal open itself? Now that's what I call bootstrapping!
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#6 2008-04-24 5:44 pm
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Re: Start iCal every morning - harder than it sounds
mrreet2001 wrote:
Make an iCal event that opens iCal every morning at a certain time. Make the event repeat every day. If you don't want to see the same event everyday put it in a separate calendar in ical
I can't believe that worked! It's like getting to the end of the movie and realizing the bad guy's been right in front of you the whole time. Thanks.
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