KAlarm may be run as an icon in the 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.
KAlarm main window.
click on the system tray icon to toggle between displaying and hiding theclick on the system tray icon to display its context menu:
Enables monitoring of alarms. This option only appears if alarms are currently disabled.
See Enabling and disabling alarms for details.
Disables monitoring of alarms. This option only appears if alarms are currently enabled.
See Enabling and disabling alarms for details.
Opens the alarm edit dialog to create a new alarm.
Displays the list of alarm templates in a menu. When you select one, the alarm edit dialog is opened, preset with that template's details.
Displays the KAlarm preferences dialog.
The preferences dialog is described in Configuring KAlarm. It includes options relating to the KAlarm system tray icon.
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.)
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.
You must be running the KDE desktop or another suitable window manager 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 system tray, select ->.
To remove KAlarm from the system tray, do one of the following:
Select ->.
from the context menu.
click on the system tray icon and choose
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