Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:44:43AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Is there some sort of simple application out there for GNOME that acts like
> an egg timer? You know, i enter in an amount of time, can watch it tick
> down, and have it make some sort of loud obnoxious sound when it's done?
>
Other than the obnxious sound or custom command, there's stopwatch.
However, to change the sound, the docs say that you have to change the
source.
I have on my todo list to write a program in Python for this. Some sort
of multi-timer, but I haven't needed it for a while.
If you don't need to see it counting down, there's remind. It runs from
a terminal but it will run any command. You could combine it with
whatever that X version of dialog is that pops up messages, and you
could have it play a sound or something. I don't have it installed
right now (I bought a Palm) to read the man page. I think you could run
a loop (with a 1s sleep) that asked remind what was due.
Doug.
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