Alarms should still work even when app is closed

Bug #1583660 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Clocks
Confirmed
Medium
gnome-clocks (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

gnome-clocks should include some kind of service or system integration so that it can still alert a user to an alarm even if the app is not open.

This issue is why I didn't have Ubuntu GNOME include gnome-clocks by default years ago.

Changed in gnome-clocks:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-clocks (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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kg (box-dev) wrote :

Under "Add an alarm" in the help file, it says:

"It will go off regardless of whether Clocks is open or not."

If this just never works at the moment perhaps the help file should be amended until it is fixed?

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

kg, please open a new bug for that issue.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

kg, I filed https://launchpad.net/bugs/1695650 about the issue you mentioned. Thank you!

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Clocks does as of atleast 3.36 have a background service now. Alarms will work after closing the app, however from my testing they do not currently work after a reboot even though the service is running (prior to relaunching the app).

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