The KAlarm Handbook

David Jarvie <software@astrojar.org.uk>

Developer: David Jarvie
Revision 1.01.00 (2004-06-24)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

KAlarm is a personal alarm message, command and email scheduler for KDE.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Using KAlarm
Alarm list
Creating and manipulating alarms
Creating a new alarm
Modifying an existing alarm
Deleting an alarm
Viewing an alarm
Acknowledging an alarm
Alarm templates
Importing birthdays from KAddressBook
The alarm edit dialog
Alarm action
Deferral
Time
Recurrence
Other controls
Alarm message window
System tray operation
Displaying KAlarm in the system tray
Refreshing alarms
Enabling/disabling alarm monitoring
Enabling alarm monitoring
Disabling alarm monitoring
Controlling the alarm daemon
Quitting the program
3. Configuring KAlarm
General
Email
View
Font & Color
Edit
4. Command line operation
Schedule a new alarm
Other options
Help options
5. Alarm daemon
Starting, resetting and stopping the alarm daemon
Starting the alarm daemon
Resetting the alarm daemon
Stopping the alarm daemon
Controlling the alarm daemon with the Service Manager
6. Developer's Guide to KAlarm
DCOP interface
Command line interface
7. Questions and Answers
8. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain KAlarm
Requirements
Compilation and installation
Configuration