For a long time--years-- I've been using Korganizer's Calendar. But lately-- since the last kernel upgrade, I believe-- the alarms don't work anymore. I set an appointment and (most of the time) schedule an alarm (one or more) for it, but the small windows containing the reminders don't pop up anymore... not even those set a year ago which always worked before.
Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know what a fix for it might be?
tia, ken
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:17:12 -0400 ken wrote:
For a long time--years-- I've been using Korganizer's Calendar. But lately-- since the last kernel upgrade, I believe-- the alarms don't work anymore.
Is korganizer calendar alarm the same thing as kalarm? kalarm works fine for me but I don't use korganizer calendar.
Are you sure that it's running? Does the little alarm doodad appear in your Notification Area?
On 06/24/2013 12:42 PM Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:17:12 -0400 ken wrote:
For a long time--years-- I've been using Korganizer's Calendar. But lately-- since the last kernel upgrade, I believe-- the alarms don't work anymore.
Is korganizer calendar alarm the same thing as kalarm? kalarm works fine for me but I don't use korganizer calendar.
Are you sure that it's running? Does the little alarm doodad appear in your Notification Area?
Thanks, Frank.
Oddly, I have the executables /usr/bin/kalarm and /usr/bin/kalarmd installed (they're part of kdepim, of which korganizer is also a part), but I don't have the package 'kalarm' installed. But it's always been this way, AKAICT... for years. And the last update to the kdepim package was Tue 13 Sep 2011. The failure with the alarms just started in the past couple months or so. And you're right, I don't have the icon you spoke of in my notification area. Hmmm.
Restarted KOrganizer, the icon came back, along with two months worth of alarms.
There's still a puzzle though. My uptime now is 21 days, meaning I rebooted 3 weeks ago, meaning that KOrganizer was restarted then of course. But restarting it then didn't bring up the icon (as far as anyone notices a few pixels like that) and didn't start the daemon which brings up the alarms. So there's still something weird going on, but at least it's working for the moment and I know to watch for the icon.
Thanks much. ken
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:07:48 -0400 ken wrote:
So there's still something weird going on, but at least it's working for the moment and I know to watch for the icon.
To make kalarm run every time you log in, you can make sure that it's started and then go your desktop Main Menu - Preferences - Startup Applications - Options, and then either click the "Rememeber currently running application" button, or check the "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" box and then log out.
Then kalarm will run every time you log in from that point on.
On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:07:48 -0400 ken wrote:
So there's still something weird going on, but at least it's working for the moment and I know to watch for the icon.
To make kalarm run every time you log in, you can make sure that it's started and then go your desktop Main Menu - Preferences - Startup Applications - Options, and then either click the "Rememeber currently running application" button, or check the "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" box and then log out.
Then kalarm will run every time you log in from that point on.
I don't think that's the problem. kalarm is not currently running (according to 'ps'), but the KOrganizer daemon is... and most importantly, korganizer is now properly invoking the alarms (the small windows are popping up).
Where is the Melville Theater?
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:33:52 -0400 ken wrote:
I don't think that's the problem. kalarm is not currently running (according to 'ps'), but the KOrganizer daemon is... and most importantly, korganizer is now properly invoking the alarms (the small windows are popping up).
Then you might want to insure that the korganizer daemon will run every time you log in. You can use the same steps that I described in my last reply to do that. Otherwise the program will work until you log out, and not again unless you take steps to run it again manually the next time you log in.
Where is the Melville Theater?
Note url three lines down.
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