a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Douglas Bates
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

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Douglas Bates wrote: 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

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 12:51:49 -0600 (CST) From: Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: a count-down timer? Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 18:40:40 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Resent-cc

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
Hi there, ) 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. I recall a program named leave that does

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? leave does exactly what you want. (It's in the leave

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Fabio Olive Leite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ) on a specific day but I want to be able to say five minutes from now ) without a lot of hassle. I recall a program named leave that does exactly that. What I do not remember is wether there is a .deb pack for it. There is. hi leave