Orage: notifications?

[juha]

> No, not yet. Still using RC2 of Xfce 4.4.
>
>   
this is the same. works fine.
>> Do you see any messages from Orage?
>> Either in the terminal, if you started it manually
>> (recommended in this situation to better see messages)
>>     
>
> No messages whatsoever; Orage immediately forks itself from the terminal.
>   
You need to stop it first before starting...
It actually now just sends a signal to the
daemon orage running somewhere in the background....
>   
>> or in
>> ~/.xsession-errors
>> if you started Orage as part of the Xfce start.
>>     
>
> There are some informative messages but nothing really useful:
>   
actually they are quite usefull...
You should see somethign like this:
** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 19 events.
        Found 12 alarms of which 5 are active. (Searched 86 recurring 
alarms.)

Check with tail or less or vi...your grep does not show the
alarm line, so we do not know if Orage finds any alarms.
>   
>> $ grep Orage .xsession-errors
>> ** Message: Orage **: Too small icon size, using static icon
>> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.
>> DOUBLE-CLICK: 447 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 8 --> -1 ** Message: Orage **: NEW appointment: 20070119
>> ** Message: Orage **: Added: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
>> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 1 events.
>> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 1 events.
>> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 1 events.
>> ** Message: Orage **: UPDATE appointment: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
>> ** Message: Orage **: Modified: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
>> ** Message: Orage **: UPDATE appointment: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
>> ** Message: Orage **: Removed: Orage-20070119T143128Z-1000 at core2
>> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.
>> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.
>> ** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 0 events.
>>     
>
> I set up an event 1 minute in the future with an alert duration of 5 minutes,
> but when the event was about to start, nothing happened. Orage only switched the
> color of the entry from black to red, obviously to show that the event is over.
>
>   
Ok. I think I know what the issue is.

The "alarm duration" you mention is actually alarm time
and tells how much earlier the alarm is sent.

In your case Orage event happens after 1 minute and alarm
5 minutes before that, which actually is 4 minutes ago. And as
Orage is real time tool and does not remember old alarms, it
does not show the alarm since the time has passed.

Try creating an event 1 hour in the future and set alarm
time to 50 minutes and then wait 10 minutes and you should
see the window.

Are you using the tray icon? You should see there tooltip that
lists all active alarms.