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.