Re: Reminders in KOrganizer

On Monday 24 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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'.
> >
> > 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.

Indeed. When I started KOrganizer yesterday after not running it for 
quite a few weeks I got reminders for lots of birthdays that happened 
in the last few weeks. ;-)


Regards,
Ingo

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