[Gllug] Timer Program

[- Tethys]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith
<sanelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know if any of you are aware of the minuteur program for OSX.
> It's a simple countdown timer with a pleasant interface, which starts
> from a defined amount of time and counts down.  When it gets to the
> end it either rings a bell, or fills the screen with a notification
> saying "Time's up!"

Perhaps not as slick a user interface, but this should work well enough:

echo 'aplay /path/to/noise.wav && xmessage -display :0 "Time is up"' |
at "now +25 minutes"

Tet

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