Chapter 7. Questions and Answers

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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 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 $KDEHOME/share/config/kalarmrc holds your KAlarm preferences.

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

Note

If you change this calendar file in the preferences file, you should also edit the alarm daemon's clients configuration file to remove the old calendar file reference. This should be done while the alarm daemon is not running to avoid it overwriting your change.

The calendar file which stores your expired alarms is $KDEHOME/share/apps/kalarm/expired.ics, unless a different calendar file is specified in the preferences file.

The calendar file which stores your alarm templates is $KDEHOME/share/apps/kalarm/template.ics, unless a different calendar file is specified in the preferences file.

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

7.3.

What configuration files does the alarm daemon use?

The file $KDEHOME/share/config/kalarmdrc holds your alarm daemon preferences.

The file $KDEHOME/share/apps/kalarmd/clients holds details of client applications which have previously been registered with the alarm daemon, and their calendar files.

7.4.

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. In addition, in KDE versions previous to 3.1, there is a small application kalarmautostart whose function is to start KAlarm's system tray icon at login.