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With ZCS, whenever an appointment is about to start an alert message pops up.
Is there a way to use an external program for notification ?
For example,Kontact, KDE collaboration client, would allow that as you can edit a command line which would be run when an appointment should have started or ended.
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Using external program to notify an event start 
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