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Setting up KAlarm on non-KDE desktops
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Although KAlarm is a KDE application and requires KDE to be installed on your
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system, you can still use it while running other desktops or window managers.
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In order to have alarms monitored and displayed automatically from one login
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session to the next, the alarm daemon (which monitors the alarm list and tells
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KAlarm to display each alarm when it becomes due) must be run automatically
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when you graphically log in or otherwise start X. If you are running the KDE
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desktop, the KAlarm installation process sets this up for you.
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If you want to use KAlarm with Gnome or another non-KDE window manager, you
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have two alternatives:
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1) If your desktop environment/window manager performs session restoration,
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ensure that the alarm daemon (kalarmd) is included in the session restoration,
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and that after login or restarting X the alarm daemon is running with a
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'-session' command line option, e.g.
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kalarmd -session 117f000002000100176495700000008340018
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You can use the 'ps' command to check this.
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2) If you cannot use session restoration to start the alarm daemon correctly,
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you must configure the following command to be run whenever you graphically log
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in or start X:
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kalarmd --login
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If your desktop environment or window manager has a facility to configure
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programs to be run at login, you can use that facility. Otherwise, you need to
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add the command to an appropriate script which is run after X is started.
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If you can specify an order to start the applications, start kalarm first, then
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kalarmd.
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If you can send me details on how to set up the daemon for any particular
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window manager, I will include these in the next version of KAlarm.
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