Once you minimize Alarm Clock when using Unity, there is no way to regain access to the GUI

[David Kirba]

Binary package hint: alarm-clock

When using Unity session, minimizing Alarm Clock causes it to disappear since there is no appindicator. This causes problems: For example, an alarm starts ringing but you cannot click the tray icon to access the interface to turn it off. Only option available is to kill the process and then restart the application.

If you happen to choose the 'start minimized' option and your default session uses Unity then you really have no way of accessing the user interface of the program.

So basically what it needs is an appindicator icon. I'm not sure if this is a very popular program but I do use it extensively and since it is available in the repositories it should be able to integrate into the new interface smoothly.

Thank you

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: alarm-clock 1.2.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 1 11:43:54 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alarm-clock
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[KimKulak (kim-kulak)]

I also noticed that you won't find Alarm Clock if you search for it in the dash. The problem is the last line in /usr/share/applications/alarm-clock.desktop. Delete this line: "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;". What I did was copy /usr/share/applications/alarm-clock.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/alarm-clock.desktop, make it executable "chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/alarm-clock.desktop", and then delete the last line.

[Vladimir Djuricic (vladimir-djuricic)]

Same problem here, but this works for me.

Go to: ~/.config/alarm-clock
Edit file: global.conf

Just change "StartMinimized=true" to "StartMinimized=false"

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