Good Timer App?

df3n5 · 2010-07-27 15:04:21

Hi,

I'm looking for a good timer app. Ideally it should have some sort of notification system which calls a system alert after a certain amount of time.

Is there any X app (without many gnome deps ideally) which does this?

Thanks.

ewaller · 2010-07-27 15:19:44

ktimer ?

Ogion · 2010-07-27 15:25:34

How about either a crontab entry, that for example calls xmessage or plays music.

 0 9 * * * /usr/bin/mpc play

Or, for example to give myself an alarm when the breakfast eggs are cooked

sleep 7m && mpc play

These solutions are not really graphical though, so maybe you're interested more in those then.

Ogion

Last edited by Ogion (2010-07-27 15:26:12)

df3n5 · 2010-07-27 15:48:16

ewaller wrote:

ktimer ?

Thanks for the reply, I would prefer not to use any KDE libs either, as lightweight as possible would be good.

How about either a crontab entry, that for example calls xmessage or plays music.
Code:
0 9 * * * /usr/bin/mpc play
Or, for example to give myself an alarm when the breakfast eggs are cooked
Code:
sleep 7m && mpc play
These solutions are not really graphical though, so maybe you're interested more in those then.
Ogion

I looked at doing crontasks before but I thought it would be too much work. I think that would work nicely. Would be nice to have some sort of running timer to see how much time is left though. Thanks.

Xyne · 2010-07-27 15:49:14

pyStopwatch

Inxsible · 2010-07-27 20:04:34

workrave

brisbin33 · 2010-07-27 20:13:24

from my bashrc

# set an ad-hoc GUI timer
timer() {
  local N=$1; shift

  (sleep $N && zenity --info --title="Time's Up" --text="${*:-BING}") &
  echo "timer set for $N"
}

$ timer 30s
$ timer 35m get the laundry

works great.

OrangeRoot1000 · 2010-07-28 03:33:01

Gnome has an app called Time Tracker

df3n5 · 2010-07-28 08:31:32

Xyne wrote:

pyStopwatch
http://xyne.archlinux.ca/img/screenshot … _timer.png

This is exactly what I wanted, cheers. Cool website btw.

Thanks to everyone for their replies, some interesting solutions I didn't think of.

I also like brisbin33's timer function. Very simple and elegant.

Thanks again,
df3n5.

bernarcher · 2010-07-28 08:51:31

Just a rather basic solution I use since years:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Issue an alarm using at and xmessage
# Usage:
#     AL [@] delay [message timeout]]
#    where @ denotes absolute time
#    If not absolute time:
#       delay is in minutes
#       timeout is in seconds
#
# Defaults to 15 minutes delay: "ALARM"
# Message defaults to "ALARM"

PREFIX="now + "
SUFFIX=" minutes"
DELAY=15
MSG='ALARM'
TO=60

if [ "$1" == "-h" ] || [ "$1" == "--help" ]
then
  echo "AL - Issue an alarm"
  echo "     AL [delay (in minutes) [message [timeout (in seconds)]]]"
  echo "   or"
  echo "     AL @ time [message [timeout (in seconds)]]"
  echo "   defaults: delay=15 message=\"ALARM\" timeout=60"
  exit
fi

if [ "$1" == "@" ]
then
  PREFIX=""
  SUFFIX=""
  shift
fi

if [ "$1"x != "x" ]
then
  DELAY=$1
  if [ "$2"x != "x" ]
  then
    MSG="$2"
    if [ "$3"x != "x" ]
    then
      TO=$3
    fi
  fi
fi

# Xdialog Version
echo "BELL;DISPLAY=:0 Xdialog --timeout $TO --msgbox "\"$MSG\"" 0 0" | at $PREFIX$DELAY$SUFFIX

# xmessage version
# echo "BELL;DISPLAY=:0 xmessage -button OK -default OK -timeout $TO ""$MSG""" | at $PREFIX$DELAY$SUFFIX

if [ "$PREFIX"x != "x" ]
then
    echo "Alarm \""$MSG"\" in $PREFIX$DELAY$SUFFIX using timeout $TO seconds"
else
    echo "Alarm \""$MSG"\" at $DELAY using timeout $TO seconds"
fi

Uses the at and xdialog or packages from extra (or xdialog-gtk2 from the aur in my case). Works also well with xmessage from the xorg-apps package and should be adaptable to zenity and similar.

Last edited by bernarcher (2010-07-28 08:52:58)

supulton · 2010-07-28 22:43:23

utimer is also a very cool cli timer.

Knute · 2010-07-31 22:14:54

Since the cron approach was already mentioned, I want to point out atd. Basically, it's a daemon like cron, but you enter into the command line

at now + 5 min

hit enter, and then on the next line tell it what to execute at that particular time. It has more options than the offset as well.

I've used flite, and dzen with it myself.

Though, I'm glad that you found what you were looking for.

Doh! And after submitting see that at is mentioned in a script. Nice idea btw.

Last edited by Knute (2010-07-31 22:16:45)

ms · 2013-02-08 09:18:13

If you use xfce, check out xfce4-time-out-plugin and xfce4-timer-plugin.

nTia89 · 2013-03-09 13:10:11

workrave it's perfect

I suggest: make a 5 mins pause every 30 mins work

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#1 2010-07-27 15:04:21

Good Timer App?

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