Unfortunately, I made a dumb mistake. I was not using evolution-calendar but Gnome-calandar. I have since verified that Evolution calendar notification does indeed work.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2025, at 10:41 AM, John wrote: > Package: 3.56.2-0+deb13u1 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: none, [email protected] > > I installed evolution and evolution-calendar on a Raspberry pi 400 running > trixie, wayland, labwc > > I then added multiple calendar entries in multiple local calendars. I do no > external syncing with other calendars. > > I configured evolution preferences for calendar Reminders and checked the > following boxes: > Display Reminders window with notifications > Keep reminder notification window always on top > Enable desktop notifications > Display reminders for completed tasks > Display reminders for past events > Set default reminder 30 minutes before > > For the sources for reminder notification, all calandars are checked > > After realizing I was not getting notifications, I set up an event for test > purposes with a 5 minute notification and repeatedly changed the time after > it occurred so as to try again. Each time, I heard a notification bell > ringing but no notifications ever popped up. > > My other system runs Debian bookworm on a laptop using X and I installed > calendar there for test purposes. Notifications always show up. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 13.2 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, > 'stable') > Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) > Foreign Architectures: armhf > > Kernel: Linux 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-v8 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
