Re: [Evolution] Question about evolution task "alerts"

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 08:48 -0500, Sean O'Neill wrote:

> I'm running on Suse 9.0 Pro with Evolution 1.4.5.  Currently just using 
> Evolution for Calendar and Tasks.  I've noticed at times there are the 
> following tasks in my ps listing even when I don't have evolution running:
>
> soneill linux:/var/mail> ps -ef|grep evolution
> soneill   2730  2622  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:03 
> /opt/gnome/libexec/evolution/1.4/evolution-alarm-notify 
> --sm-config-prefix /evolution-alarm-notify-5cXpTP/ --sm-client-id 
> 117f000002000107962174300000027010009 --screen 0
>
> Are processes like these related to evolution trying to throw up a popup 
> window saying a task is about to start/end or whatever ?
yes, they are, not only will it display a dialog, but send an email, run
a program, whatever you set up your alarms for.

> If they are, I've never seen any sort of window popup from Evolution.
do you use alarms for your calendar events?

cheers