> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 19:55 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: 
> > hi ben,
> > 
> > Am Samstag, den 11.06.2005, 11:06 -0500 schrieb Ben Miller:
> > > or calendar alarms?
> > 
> > calendar alarms: choose appropriate "alarm" settings when you set up an
> > appointment, then you'll get a pop up window reminding you.
> > 
> 
> That's fine in theory, but my calender often "forgets" to remind me ;-)
> 
> That is, I set an alarm and then no reminder pops up at the set time. 
> Specifically, it seems that unless I visit my calender I get no reminders,
> then when I open calender view the "forgotten" reminders pop up.  Since I 
> stay in mail view 99.995 of the time this next to useless.  Shouldn't the
> reminders pop up over my mail view as well?

It probably should, but there's a trivial workaround --- open two
windows, one with calendar and the other mail.

That's what I have essentially all the time (with one or both iconified
most of the time) and so hadn't even noticed the situation you describe.


Paul


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