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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > At Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:20:45 -0400, Todd Gruhn <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Greg A. Woods <[email protected]> > > Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <[email protected]> > Planix, Inc. <[email protected]> Avoncote Farms <[email protected]>
