<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>Unfortunately, I made a dumb mistake. I was not using evolution-calendar but Gnome-calandar. I have since verified that Evolution calendar notification does indeed work.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Dec 27, 2025, at 10:41 AM, John wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Package: 3.56.2-0+deb13u1</div><div>Severity: normal</div><div>X-Debbugs-Cc: none, <a href="mailto:jpforum@fastmail.com">jpforum@fastmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>I installed evolution and evolution-calendar on a Raspberry pi 400 running trixie, wayland, labwc</div><div><br></div><div>I then added multiple calendar entries in multiple local calendars. I do no external syncing with other calendars.</div><div><br></div><div>I configured evolution preferences for calendar Reminders and checked the following boxes:</div><div>Display Reminders window with notifications</div><div>Keep reminder notification window always on top</div><div>Enable desktop notifications</div><div>Display reminders for completed tasks</div><div>Display reminders for past events</div><div>Set default reminder 30 minutes before</div><div><br></div><div>For the sources for reminder notification, all calandars are checked</div><div><br></div><div>After realizing I was not getting notifications, I set up an event for test purposes with a 5 minute notification and repeatedly changed the time after it occurred so as to try again. Each time, I heard a notification bell ringing but no notifications ever popped up.</div><div><br></div><div>My other system runs Debian bookworm on a laptop using X and I installed calendar there for test purposes. Notifications always show up.</div><div><br></div><div>-- System Information:</div><div>Debian Release: 13.2</div><div> APT prefers stable-updates</div><div> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')</div><div>Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)</div><div>Foreign Architectures: armhf</div><div><br></div><div>Kernel: Linux 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-v8 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)</div><div>Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP</div><div>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8</div><div>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash</div><div>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)</div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>