Description of problem: No gnome or evolution alert reminders when evo not running Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Evolution 2.10.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Schedule events 2. Run gnome without evo 3. No reminders Actual results: No reminders Expected results: Reminders Additional info: Reminders work when evolution running
The alarm notification mechanism lives in Evolution, and so Evolution has to be started in order for the alarm-notify daemon to be spawned. Thereafter, you should continue to get reminders even after closing Evolution.
Sorry to re-open this, but I think a better explanation is required. On fc5, gnome started evolution-alarm-notify without any problems (didn't need evolution first) and from a quick search of the net it seems evolution-alarm-notify is expected to run at gnome login (as it has done): http://www.debianhelp.org/node/9746 Also, it seems counter-intuitive that evolution-alarm-notify should require evolution: if you've got evolution running why would you need additional pop-ups? A work-around (and possible fix) seems to be simply add /usr/libexec/evolution/2.10/evolution-alarm-notify to the Sessions' Start Up Programs - why is this no longer the default for fedora's desktop?
Based on the code of evolution-alarm-notify: /* The daemon should always be started up by the session manager when * the session starts. The daemon will take care of loading whatever * calendars it was told to load. */ gnome_client_set_restart_style (master_client, GNOME_RESTART_IF_RUNNING); I see only three possible issues here: a) you use other desktop environment, or b) the evolution-alarm-notify is closed before the session ends, or c) the above code doesn't work
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Moving this upstream for better visibility. Please see [1] for further updates. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587254