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+Setting up KAlarm on non-KDE desktops
+=====================================
+
+Although KAlarm is a KDE application and requires KDE to be installed on your
+system, you can still use it while running other desktops or window managers.
+
+In order to have alarms monitored and displayed automatically from one login
+session to the next, the alarm daemon (which monitors the alarm list and tells
+KAlarm to display each alarm when it becomes due) must be run automatically
+when you graphically log in or otherwise start X. If you are running the KDE
+desktop, the KAlarm installation process sets this up for you.
+
+If you want to use KAlarm with Gnome or another non-KDE window manager, you
+have two alternatives:
+
+1) If your desktop environment/window manager performs session restoration,
+ensure that the alarm daemon (kalarmd) is included in the session restoration,
+and that after login or restarting X the alarm daemon is running with a
+'-session' command line option, e.g.
+
+    kalarmd -session 117f000002000100176495700000008340018
+
+You can use the 'ps' command to check this.
+
+2) If you cannot use session restoration to start the alarm daemon correctly,
+you must configure the following command to be run whenever you graphically log
+in or start X:
+
+    kalarmd --login
+
+If your desktop environment or window manager has a facility to configure
+programs to be run at login, you can use that facility. Otherwise, you need to
+add the command to an appropriate script which is run after X is started.
+
+If you can specify an order to start the applications, start kalarm first, then
+kalarmd.
+
+
+If you can send me details on how to set up the daemon for any particular
+window manager, I will include these in the next version of KAlarm.