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Chapter 7. Questions and Answers

This document may have been updated since your installation. You can find the latest version at http://docs.kde.org/development/en/tdepim/.

7.1. What is the alarm daemon?
7.2. What configuration files does KAlarm use?
7.3. What configuration files does the alarm daemon use?
7.4. What format are alarms stored in?
7.5. What are the application names of KAlarm and the alarm daemon?
7.1.

What is the alarm daemon?

The alarm daemon is an application which runs in the background, monitoring alarms and telling KAlarm to trigger them when they become due.

7.2.

What configuration files does KAlarm use?

The file $TDEHOME/share/config/kalarmrc holds your KAlarm preferences.

The calendar file which stores your pending alarms is $TDEHOME/share/apps/kalarm/calendar.ics, unless a different calendar file is specified in the preferences file by a Calendar entry in the General section.

The calendar file which stores your expired alarms is $TDEHOME/share/apps/kalarm/expired.ics, unless a different calendar file is specified in the preferences file by an ExpiredCalendar entry in the General section.

The calendar file which stores your alarm templates is $TDEHOME/share/apps/kalarm/template.ics, unless a different calendar file is specified in the preferences file by a TemplateCalendar entry in the General section.

Details of alarms currently being displayed are stored in the calendar file $TDEHOME/share/apps/kalarm/displaying.ics.

7.3.

What configuration files does the alarm daemon use?

The file $TDEHOME/share/config/kalarmdrc holds your alarm daemon preferences, together with details of the KAlarm client application.

7.4.

What format are alarms stored in?

The calendar files in which KAlarm stores its alarms are text files whose format is defined by the document RFC2445 - Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar). This is the standard format used by all tdepim applications. KAlarm uses certain non-standard properties in the Alarm component, in conformance with RFC2445: X-TDE-KALARM-NEXTRECUR, X-TDE-KALARM-REPEAT, X-TDE-KALARM-TYPE, X-TDE-KALARM-NEXTREPEAT, X-TDE-KALARM-FONTCOLOR, X-TDE-KALARM-VOLUME, X-TDE-KALARM-SPEAK, X-TDE-KALARM-EMAILID.

7.5.

What are the application names of KAlarm and the alarm daemon?

KAlarm's application name is kalarm, and the alarm daemon's application name is kalarmd.

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