Ubuntu
evolution-data-server package

evolution-alarm-notify does not start on session start

Bug #57318 reported by Slight Slightly
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Bug Description

The evolution-alarm-notify daemon is not started automatically on login to Gnome. It only starts after Evolution itself is started.

This is a problem because it means that if you don't start Evolution you can miss an appointment.

I believe it is reasonable for an end user to expect these notifications without starting Evolution, as the Gnome panel clock/calendar show EDS calendar events without Evolution running.

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Slight Slightly (slight--deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I forgot to mention... I suspect this is an upstream bug but I thought I should file it here first in case it is due to Ubuntu specific config.

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this issue.

This is an upstream enhancement request. Please contact the
Evolution developers to discuss how to do this.

It's actually pretty tricky. You have to try starting evolution-alarm-notify
at the beginning of an xsession, and the best way to do that is to use
$HOME/.xsession. But that file is not easily parsed by a program.

Changed in evolution-data-server:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Slight Slightly (slight--deactivatedaccount) wrote :

>This is an upstream enhancement request. Please contact the
>Evolution developers to discuss how to do this.

Will do

Wouldn't adding it to gnome-session make sense? I believe other gnome apps do this.

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Slight Slightly (slight--deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I opened a bug with Gnome and the initial suggestion seems to be that Ubuntu should start e-d-s on log-in.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352429

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This just got fixed, see bug 62593.

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