Orage: notifications?

[juha]

Mathias Brodala kirjoitti:
> Hello Juha.
>
> juha, 26.01.2007 07:12:
>   
>> Mathias Brodala kirjoitti:
>>     
>>> I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but shouldn’t Orage offer notifications
>>> (via libnotify for example) when an event is about to start? But I can’t find
>>> something like that the settings dialog.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> You can find and define these notifications in alarm tab
>> in appointment window. Setting the alarm time non zero
>> should cause a window to appear before the event start.
>>     
>
> OK, tried that but no window appears, although the middle column says „AnB“,
> which should mean visual notification, no repeat and busy according to the
> description.
>
>   
I assume you are using Xfce 4.4 (with Orage 4.4)?
Do you see any messages from Orage?
Either in the terminal, if you started it manually
(recommended in this situation to better see messages)
or in
~/.xsession-errors
if you started Orage as part of the Xfce start.

>> There are
>> no options currently in settings for visible windows. You
>> can only define which program is used for sound type
>> alarms. Using libnotify would add dependency on it and
>> dbus would also be needed. It is a nice idea however.
>>     
>
> I’ll file a feature request.
>   
Thanks

/Juha