This may be a leading candidate in the "dumbest question ever asked on debian-user" contest but does anyone know of a program in some package that provides a count-down timer? That is, I want to set a time of 5 minutes and start the timer then have it pop up a window or ring the bell or do something to alert me when the five minutes is up. There are many programs such as rclock that can alert me at a specific time on a specific day but I want to be able to say "five minutes from now" without a lot of hassle.
Emacs-based solutions are welcome as are more elegant versions of sleep 5m; echo "^G" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .