Alarm message window
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Alarm message window

When an alarm message is due, it is displayed on each KDE desktop and cannot be covered by ordinary windows, to ensure that you see it. The message window shows the time for which the alarm was scheduled, so that you can see when it popped up if you were away from the computer at the time. (For reminder messages, however, the date/time shown is that for the main alarm or its recurrence, not the reminder message time, and the window title is “Reminder”).

Alarm message windows remain visible until you acknowledge them, unless Auto-close window after late-cancelation time was checked in the Alarm Edit dialog. In the case of a recurring alarm, if an unacknowledged message window remains from a previous occurrence of the alarm, the existing window is simply popped up when the alarm recurs. This avoids having to acknowledge multiple copies of the same message should you not wish, or be unable, to acknowledge a message at the time it appears.

The alarm message window provides whichever of the following options are applicable to the displayed alarm:

The alarm message window may be displayed in two different modes, depending on your preferences. You can choose the mode in the Preferences dialog.

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