Kalarm Mini Howto for linux. (I am using ubuntu 7.10 and KDE)  :-)                                                                                 Back to Main Page

This is a very short version, and if you want to know more, go to the Internet etc.

This howto is without any guarantee, and you may use it on your own responsibility only.

There may be errors, but I do not want to use too much time to  write this minihowto.

To check specific words or items you may try to Search in:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/    or    http://www.google.com/


Index Of Page:

To set an alarm

To set the alarm to any time of the day

To set an alarm at a specific hour

To get information about any of the other options

To send an e-mail as an alarm

To also speak the inserted alarm text




Kalarm is a personal alarm program to give alarms, or send e-mails at selected times.

I will give some examples of how to set alarms.


To set an alarm for "2007-12-04" choose "K-menu - Utilities - Kalarm" (or left click on the Kalarm icon  on the panel) and the Kalarm main window opens -

see below


                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Back to the Index
Click on the "New" icon (see above) and the set alarm dialog window opens (see below)


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Back to the Index
Then click on the black downward pointing triangle to open the date selection dialog (see below)



Click on the date of choice "4" - you change month/year by clicking on the grey triangles  etc. (see above)                                    Back to the Index

To set the alarm to any time of the day, mark the "Any time" square   (note the time is then greyed out ) - see below                                                                                               
                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                        Back to the Index
Mark the "Text" option   and you can insert the text you want to be shown in the alarm, in the big white square - (see above)

To check how the alarm will show up, click on the "Try" button (see above) -> 

Click on the "Close" button to switch of the alarm.

To set an alarm at a specific hour follow above description, but instead of "Any time" set the time in the time pane - you change the time by

clicking on any of the black triangles (to change the time faster hold the shift button down).

Then the alarm will show at the pre set date -and time - if you boot your computer after the set alarm time, the alarm will show up immediately after you log in.

To get information about any of the other options, click with the left mouse cursor on the "question mark" in the upper right corner of the dialog, and

the mouse cursor change into a "question mark", then point this on the item you want to see, and then click the left mouse button.

You can also get a more comprehensive help by clicking "F1" in the Kalarm main window.


To send an e-mail as an alarm, choose the e-mail option (see below)                                                                                                    Back to the Index



Fill in as shown above (I have marked in with black color) - use the same principle as shown above to fill "Date" and "Time" or "Any time" - and then click "OK".

Then an e-mail will be sent to the addres you have inserted (will typical be your own e-mail address), but please note, that the computer must be running 

at the time for the e-mail to be sent.


If you want Kalarm to also speak the inserted alarm text, you should verify that the following 3 packages are installed (an easy way is  to use synaptic):

kttsd -  festival - festvox-kallpc8k (or another of the "festvox*" packages).                                                                                               


12/2007