Re: Reminders in KOrganizer

On Monday 24 August 2009 00:06:07 Louis Hinman wrote:
> On Sunday 23 August 2009 03:23:34 pm Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 August 2009, Louis Hinman wrote:
> > > I am running KMail 1.9.10 in KDE 3.5.10, which is standard in
> > > Slackware 12.2. (I hear that the next release of Slackware will have
> > > KDE 4.*.)
> > >
> > > I find a number of things in my version of KOrganizer (admittedly an
> > > older one) that don't seem to work exactly as described in the
> > > KOrganizer Handbook.
> > >
> > > Not all of these disparities are mission-critical, but here's one
> > > that is.  I can't get the Reminders for Events to work.  In the New
> > > Event dialogue, I give the Event a Title and a Start and End time.
> > > All that works as expected. However, if I check the Reminder box and
> > > specify the number of Hours, Minutes, or Days before the Event and
> > > click Okay, I *do not* get reminded. (If I open the Event and then
> > > the Advanced Reminder dialogue, I see the reminder recorded exactly
> > > as I have entered it.)  I've read through the KOrganizer Handbook,
> > > and I don't see anything that could be doing wrong.
> > >
> > > Can someone advise me?
> >
> > The reminders are performed by the KOrganizer Reminder Daemon (korgac)
> > which should be started when you start KOrganizer and, unless you
> > disabled the reminder daemon, also when you start KDE. The daemon is
> > accessible via an icon in the system tray.
> >
> > If you do not get any reminders then the reminder daemon is probably not
> > running. Try to start it manually from Konsole by entering 'korgac'.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ingo
>
> Wait!  This just in!  The Reminder Daemon just pop-up to remind me about an
> appointmnet 12 days from now.  I guess the daemon doesn't remind you if the
> time for the reminder has already passed when you log in to KDE (or when
> you launch KOrganizer?).
>
It usually does.  If I don't use a system for a week I get a whole pile of 
reminders when I log in.

Anne
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