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I figured so since that's how I changed themes in the past. But it doesn't seem to work anymore. So I was asking if there was any configuration file I could delete and have the program re-create a default one?

I'm thinking something happened during the update/upgrade.

Well you can try removing the /home/user/.flipclock.conf file, but make sure you've got all of your alarms TURNED OFF first, or you'll end up with Lemmy's problem of having alarms set in alarmD that you can't control anymore. (still working on it buddy, I'm doing my absolute best to get you a solution before next Tuesday!!).

The other thing is to try running from xterm and see if you notice any errors coming up when you try to change the sounds/etc.

jolouis

Thanks for the effort, don't rush it. As I mentioned, I don't think it's playing any sound (or at least not loud enough to be a disturbance). It's just a quirk, not even an annoyance.

Come to think of it I probably did a uninstall/delete old files and reinstalled for some reason I can't think of now. Likely my fault.

This Tuesday or next, or even next, no worries.

Ok they work now. Though I seem to notice that the display will dim but not shut off anymore when Flipclock is running.

You're in insomniac mode. Press the "back" button to switch between normal and insomniac.

Ok guys, sorry it's been a while but got another small "maintenance release" to help Lemmy and anyone else who's got weird/random flipclock alarms going off on them. Version is now 0.2.1 and should be up in extras-devel in the next few minutes; also will be available on the garage page very shortly.

The main change here is the addition of some simple command line options. So if you're having weird/random alarms, upgrade to the latest version of Flip and then open up xterm and type:
flipclock -f

If all goes well it should pop up a dialog once flip loads telling you about any erroneous alarms it's found and asking if you'd like to try and fix them; clicking Yes should solve the problems.

Still working on the graphics updates and optimizations, but I wanted to get this out in the meantime... (Sorry I'm a day late lemmy!)

Thanks!

jolouis,

Thanks for the update. I appreciate all the hard work. I ran it with the -f from xterm twice. No popup dialog ...however, I don't think it activated yesterday morning (Tuesday) either??? Perhaps the alarm was cleared somehow prior to the update? I'll keep an eye on it. Of course now I feel kind of silly. Like when you car is acting up and you get to the mechanic and it runs fine for them.

PS It did take a while to find in the app manager. I have diablo extra-devel enabled, but had to enable chinook extra-devel to get it.

Hey Lemmy,

Yea the Diablo auto builder was taking a nap yesterday... it got up into Chinook extras-devel in like 2 minutes, but Diablo one (even though there were no other apps in the queue) took all day...

If you run it from the command line with the -f option it should list off saying something like "Monday's alarm is valid", etc for any alarms that you have set; the popup only appears if it finds one that's definitely not supposed to be there. Anyways, glad to hear that it seems to be sorted, it shouldn't be a problem that comes up again anymore, but at least that -f option is there just in case!

I didn't have any alarms set, so I set one and tried it again. No pop-up or confirmation of good alarms, although I did notice that a clock icon shows up on the status bar. (Not that it shows any alarms though). Not overly worried about it. Opening xterm and typing "flipclock -f".

Just thought I'd pass the info back to you. Thanks again.

Sorry I should have clarified about the "Good alarms" thing... it should be printed out in the X-term session, not as a popup; the popup only appears when things are bad ;-)

i.e. on my tablet here I've got:
(Hmmm I really have to clean up some of those pygame errors and things... is that just my old install of pygame, or do those errors appear for others too?).

Yea, last version of the flipclock added that alarm Icon thing, but since it's tied to the native clock app, you can't really do anything with it, it's just there to remind you that you do have an alarm set. One of the long term features down the road will be to add a custom "status bar" icon for flipclock alarms, so you get the icon and a way of setting/clearing flipclock alarms more directly... that's still a long way away at this point though.