System tray operation

KAlarm may be run as an icon in the KDE system tray. This icon allows one-click activation of KAlarm, and provides both control and status indication of alarm monitoring. A normal KAlarm icon indicates that alarms are being monitored, while a gray icon indicates that alarms are not being monitored.

If you hover the mouse cursor over the system tray icon, a summary of the first few message alarms due in the next 24 hours are displayed as a tooltip. You can switch this feature off, or configure the number of alarms to display and their format, in the Preferences dialog.

Left click on the system tray icon to toggle between displaying and hiding the KAlarm main window.

Right click on the system tray icon to display its context menu:

Enable Alarms

Enables monitoring of alarms.

See Enabling/disabling alarm monitoring for details.

Alarms Enabled

Disables monitoring of alarms.

See Enabling/disabling alarm monitoring for details.

New Alarm...

Opens the alarm edit dialog to create a new alarm.

See The alarm edit dialog for details.

Configure KAlarm...

Displays the KAlarm preferences dialog.

The preferences dialog is described in Configuring KAlarm. It includes options relating to the KAlarm system tray icon.

Control Alarm Daemon...

Displays the Service Manager dialog which allows you to control the alarm daemon.

See Controlling the alarm daemon with the Service Manager for details.

Restore / Minimize

Restores or minimizes the main KAlarm window.

This option is only available if the run mode is “continuous”. (See Configuring KAlarm for a description of run modes.)

Quit

Closes the KAlarm system tray icon.

In “continuous” run mode only, it also closes all KAlarm main windows. It has no effect on the monitoring of alarms by the alarm daemon, if you have deselected Disable alarms while not running in the Preferences dialog.

Displaying KAlarm in the system tray

You must be running the KDE desktop in order to display KAlarm in the system tray. If KAlarm is running in “continuous” mode, the system tray icon is always displayed. These instructions apply only to “on-demand” mode. (See Configuring KAlarm for a description of run modes.)

To display KAlarm in the KDE system tray, select View->Show in System Tray.

To remove KAlarm from the KDE system tray, do one of the following:

  • Select View->Hide from System Tray.

  • Right click on the system tray icon and choose Quit from the context menu.

Use of the system tray icon is described below.