Alarms may be enabled and disabled either as a whole or individually:
“Alarm monitoring” applies to alarms as a whole. When alarm monitoring is disabled, the alarm daemon ceases to check alarms and therefore no alarms will trigger at all. When alarm monitoring is enabled (the normal situation), all alarms which are not individually disabled will trigger at the appropriate times.
Alarms may be individually enabled and disabled, independently of the alarm monitoring status. So the enabled/disabled status of individual alarms will be unchanged by disabling and then re-enabling alarm monitoring. Unlike alarm monitoring which could potentially be disabled due to KAlarm not running or the alarm daemon not functioning, individual alarms can only be disabled if you use menu commands to do so.
An alarm's individual enabled/disabled status is indicated by its color in the alarm list (the color being configurable in the Font & Color tab of the Preferences dialog).
For an alarm to trigger, it must be individually enabled as well as alarm monitoring being enabled.
If KAlarm's run mode is “continuous” and you have selected Disable alarms while not running in the Preferences dialog, you must first ensure that KAlarm is running in order for alarm monitoring to take place.
Then if alarm monitoring is currently disabled, do one of the following to enable alarms:
Select ->.
from the context menu.
click on the system tray icon and chooseThe alarm daemon is started if necessary and alarms will be monitored for when they become due.
There are several ways to disable alarm monitoring, which prevents KAlarm from displaying any further alarms either until you re-enable alarms, or – assuming that the alarm daemon is configured to start at login – until the next time you log in.
To disable alarms without stopping the alarm daemon, do one of the following:
Select ->.
from the context menu.
click on the system tray icon and chooseIf KAlarm's run mode is “continuous” and you have selected Disable alarms while not running in the Preferences dialog, quit KAlarm.
To disable alarms by stopping the alarm daemon:
Select ->. This displays the Service Manager dialog which enables you to stop the alarm daemon.
To enable individual alarms which are currently disabled, do one of the following:
Select one or more alarms by clicking on their entries in the alarm list. Then choose ->.
from the context menu.
click on the desired entries in the alarm list and chooseTo disable individual alarms which are currently enabled, do one of the following:
Select one or more alarms by clicking on their entries in the alarm list. Then choose ->.
from the context menu.
click on the desired entries in the alarm list and choose
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