Re: Timer for X-windows?

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for the idea.
I am debugging a Ag/Au extraction process.  I need something to get my attention
if I am to engrossed in programming projects or games.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 8:24 PM Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
>
> At Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:20:45 -0400, Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Timer for X-windows?
> >
> > I have a project I need to time. While I am on the computer, is there
> > an X-widget
> > that allows me to set and time a process, and has an alarm to get my attention?
> > Similar to a stopwatch?
>
> It has no alarm feature, but pkgsrc/time/titrax can be useful for
> tracking time spent at various projects.  Set up a list of projects, and
> then click on the appropriate project every time you switch tasks.  You
> need to be pretty dedicated to time management though for it to work
> well, though it is also trivial to tweak it's tracking files.  It comes
> with a Perl script that should be able to make it useful from the
> command line too, but I just noticed there's possibly a bug with the
> Perl-5 install from pkgsrc not including "ctime.pl", or maybe that's
> deprecated and the script needs updating.
>
> And there is pkgsrc/time/xalarm for starting alarms on X11....
>
> If you work primarily in Emacs there are also many time tracking
> packages for it as well, some that are semi-automatic too.
>
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