From 84eec8c855b2c6ff246831a361d3815146934bd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Fucini <dfucini@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 11:27:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] calcurse: notify whole-day events every morning

The calcurse daemon only alerts timed appointments, so birthdays went unnoticed. A daily 09:00 timer, started from xmonad and persistent across suspend, sends today's events through notify-send.
---
 .config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.service | 6 ++++++
 .config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.timer   | 6 ++++++
 .config/xmonad/xmonad.hs                    | 1 +
 .local/bin/calcurse-today                   | 9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.service
 create mode 100644 .config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.timer
 create mode 100755 .local/bin/calcurse-today

diff --git a/.config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.service b/.config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a8514f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.service
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Notify today's calcurse events
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/calcurse-today
diff --git a/.config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.timer b/.config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.timer
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fc0edf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/systemd/user/calcurse-today.timer
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Notify today's calcurse events every morning
+
+[Timer]
+OnCalendar=*-*-* 09:00
+Persistent=true
diff --git a/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs b/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
index 97b9aae..2bfa0b8 100644
--- a/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
+++ b/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ myStartupHook = do
   spawnOnce "nm-applet"
   spawnOnce "arch-audit-gtk"
   spawnOnce "calcurse --daemon"
+  spawnOnce "systemctl --user start calcurse-today.timer"
   spawnOnce "systemctl --user start dunst"
   spawnOnce "lxpolkit"
   spawnOnce "numlockx"
diff --git a/.local/bin/calcurse-today b/.local/bin/calcurse-today
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4a4cc81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.local/bin/calcurse-today
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Notify today's whole-day calcurse events (the daemon only alerts timed appointments).
+set -euo pipefail
+
+events=$(calcurse -Q --filter-type event,recur-event --days 1 \
+    --format-event '%m\n' --format-recur-event '%m\n' | tail -n +2)
+
+[[ -n $events ]] || exit 0
+notify-send -a calcurse -i x-office-calendar "Today" "$events"