Some time ago I used a feature in KDE called “Run a command” when an event triggered. It triggered for me when a calendar event fired and used Piper TTS to read the event to me out loud. A small popup and a pling don’t work for me. I tried to get the feature back into KDE, but since the merge request isn’t going anywhere and people don’t give details how to implement it correctly I wrote Sigrun now. It is named after a Norse Valkyrie and is short for Signal Run. It is a systemd service running as a user and listening on DBus signals. Once it finds a configured one, it runs its command. The desktop doesn’t matter. Here is the rule that reads my calendar reminders aloud via kde-tts.py: [[rule]] name = "calendar-tts" [rule.event] type = "notification" [rule.filter] app_name = "kalendarac" summary = "Meeting.*" [rule.filter.hints] "x-kde-eventId" = "reminder" [rule.action] command = "/usr/local/bin/kde-tts.py" args = ["-t", "{summary}", "-d", "{body}"] crates.io/crates/sigrun codeberg.org/cryptomilk/sigrun...