Re: [Evolution] calender reminders

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

> > > > 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?
>
> Yes, they should. And I can confirm they do. :)
>
>
> > I have the same problem. I find that if evolution-alarm-notify isn't
> > running I don't get them. The problem is that for me at least is that
> > e-a-n crashes just about every time I run evo. You could try running
> > it manually and see if that works, it does sometimes (not regularly
> > though) for me.
> >
> > It looks like this problem is bugzilla and I added some details to it
> > but couldn't work out how to add the current version to the bug to try
> > and get it added to the bug day last friday.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273130
>
> Well, yes -- if e-a-n isn't running, you won't get those reminders.
>
> Maybe this is the reason for anyone contributing to this thread so far?
> (Sorry, already deleted most of this thread.)
>
> Can you please check this? Is e-a-n running at all? Check with the
> command below, multiple times, including times when (test) alarms are
> due.
>
> $ ps axw | grep evolution-alarm-notify

The problem I seem to have with e-a-n is that just about every time I
start evolution it crashes for some unknown reason. If I start it
manually it sometimes work and sometimes crashes.

Peter