On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:25 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > > 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.
Can you try to gather some more information and maybe reproduce this crash? When starting e-a-n manually, can you use gdb? If it crashes, get a backtrace. [1] Then file a bug report in bugzilla.gnome.org and attach that backtrace to the bug. Thanks... ...guenther [1] http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
