The KAlarm Handbook

The KAlarm Handbook

David Jarvie (djarvie kde.org)

Developer: David Jarvie

Revision 1.05.00 (2008-01-23)

Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 David Jarvie

KAlarm is a personal alarm message, command and email scheduler for KDE.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Using KAlarm

Expired alarms
Searching the alarm list

Creating and manipulating alarms

Creating a new alarm
Modifying an existing alarm
Deleting/reactivating an alarm
Enabling/disabling an alarm
Viewing an alarm
Acknowledging an alarm
Alarm templates
Importing alarms from external calendars
Importing birthdays from KAddressBook
Undo / redo

The alarm edit dialog

Alarm action
Deferral
Time
Reminder
Cancelation
Recurrence
Other controls

Alarm message window

System tray operation

Displaying KAlarm in the system tray

Refreshing alarms

Enabling and disabling alarms

Enabling alarm monitoring
Disabling alarm monitoring
Enabling and disabling individual alarms

Quitting the program

3. Configuring KAlarm

General
Email
View
Font & Color
Edit

4. Command line operation

Schedule a new alarm
Other options
Help options

5. Alarm daemon

Starting, resetting and stopping the alarm daemon

Starting the alarm daemon
Resetting the alarm daemon
Stopping the alarm daemon

6. Developer's Guide to KAlarm

DCOP interface
Command line interface

7. Questions and Answers

8. Credits and License

A. Installation

How to obtain KAlarm
Requirements
Compilation and installation
Configuration

Introduction