Bug 168962

Summary:	Display alarms even in virtual machines in full-screen mode
Product:	[Applications] kalarm	Reporter:	Alan Prescott <alanjprescott>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Jarvie <djarvie>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Alan Prescott 2008-08-12 10:31:15 UTC

Version:           1.5.3 (using 3.5.9 "release 65.2" , openSUSE )
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.18.8-0.10-default

For my sins I have to develop in VBA and use a VMware Workstation to run Windoze XP with the virtual machine running in full-screen mode. 

Alarm popups do not appear in the VM.

I don't know how RSIBreak does it but reminders from RSIBreak do overlay the VM so obviously it's possible.

It would be very useful if KAlarm could also do this.

Comment 1 David Jarvie 2008-12-28 02:04:47 UTC

Fixed for KDE 4.2, KDE 4.1.4 and KDE 3.5.11 (SVN commits 902265, 902298, 902304).

Note that alarm windows which pop up over a full screen window won't have a title bar or other decoration, due to limitations of X11.

Also note when the configuration option "Message windows have title bar and take keyboard focus" was deselected, alarm windows have always been displayed over full-screen windows.