On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 22:36, 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.
> 
> I don't kill any process either. I just never *saved* a session.
> 
> That means, alarm notification will not work as expected before starting
> Evolution -- unless the user has actually saved a session with
> evolution-alarm-notify running.
> 
> This is not mentioned anywhere IMHO -- but it should. Or the alarm
> daemon has to be added by Evolution.
> 
added to the session you mean? This is difficult, since the user might
or might not be running a session, although that's the same problem we
already have.

I'm not sure what's the best way to solve this.

cheers

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