On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:37, guenther wrote:
> > > I just wondered (nope, not using alarm normally):
> > > 
> > > As these processes have to be running for notifying the user, shouldn't
> > > they be launched on login?
> > > 
> > > As they are not running on login, the user will not be notified unless
> > > he actually runs Evolution -- at least for a short time.
> > 
> > if you start evolution on a GNOME session, when closing the session, the
> > list of running programs is saved, so the alarm daemon should be started
> > if it was running when the session was ended.
> 
> Well, as I said, I am just wondering. I don't use alarms ATM.
> 
> Neither did I ever save my session when logging out. I only manually
> added gkrellm to the session to start on login. I don't like
> automatically recreating all running apps and I even close my apps
> before logging out...
> 
I also close all my apps before logging out, but I don't kill the other
processes, so this saves any daemon/component that is running for the
next session.

> 
> > Isn't it working that way for you?
> 
> That said: Nope, no process with substring 'evo' after login.
> 
> Is this planned to be automagical or is the user intended to always save
> sessions? IMHO that should be more clear -- otherwise users might count
> on being alarmed although they won't.
> 
I think this should work on any X session, that is, in KDE at least. I'm
not sure of this though.

> Maybe I am just not getting the point...
> 
the other way to be sure to have it always started is the "old way", to
start evolution-alarm-notify on your .xinitrc/.xsession files.

cheers

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