Enabling and Disabling Alarms
Alarms may be enabled and disabled either as a whole or individually:
“Alarm monitoring” applies to alarms as a whole. While alarm monitoring is disabled, no alarms are triggered at all. While alarm monitoring is enabled (the normal situation), all alarms which are not individually disabled will trigger at the appropriate times.
When alarm monitoring is re-enabled, alarms which would have triggered while it was disabled are now triggered (unless any late-cancel option prevents this). In other words, disabling alarm monitoring has the same effect as stopping KAlarm – alarms are postponed until it is re-enabled.
Alarms may be individually enabled and disabled, independently of the alarm monitoring status. So the enabled/disabled status of individual alarms will be unchanged by disabling and then re-enabling alarm monitoring. Unlike alarm monitoring which could potentially be disabled due to KAlarm not running, individual alarms can only be disabled if you use menu commands to do so.
When an alarm is individually re-enabled, it is not now triggered if it became due while disabled. In other words, disabling an individual alarm cancels all its occurrences until it is re-enabled.
An alarm's individual enabled/disabled status is indicated by its color in the alarm list (the color being configurable in the View tab of the Configuration dialog).
For an alarm to trigger, it must be individually enabled as well as alarm monitoring being enabled.
For alarm monitoring to occur, KAlarm must be running. Once you run KAlarm, it will from then on start automatically whenever you log in unless you later disable it in the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
If alarm monitoring is currently disabled, do one of the following to enable alarms:
Select ->.
click on the system tray icon and choose from the context menu.
You can temporarily disable alarm monitoring, which prevents KAlarm from checking any alarms either until you re-enable alarms, or – assuming that KAlarm is configured to start at login – until the next time you log in.
Unselect ->.
click on the system tray icon and uncheck from the context menu.
Stop KAlarm as described in Quitting KAlarm.
Alarms may be permanently disabled by preventing KAlarm from being started at login using the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
To enable individual alarms which are currently disabled, do one of the following:
Select one or more alarms by clicking on their entries in the alarm list. Then choose ->.
click on the desired entries in the alarm list and choose from the context menu.
To disable individual alarms which are currently enabled, do one of the following:
Select one or more alarms by clicking on their entries in the alarm list. Then choose ->.
click on the desired entries in the alarm list and choose from the context menu.
