I gave up checking settings as I am no programmer and there was too
much code to compare with my friend whose notifications work OK.
I tried Pentagon's solution and got the same result as ingo.
Alarms worked fine for me in Jaunty and Karmic and stopped upon
installation (via update manager) of
For what it's worth I tried this workaround with Lucid final release and
it doesn't work. Interestingly both I and a friend upgraded to Lucid via
update manager and his old notifications pop up no problem next time he
reboots. I think I've probably got a slightly bad install.
Will check a few